10th Mar, 2023 10:00
TWO-DAY AUCTION - Fine Chinese Art / 中國藝術集珍 / Buddhism & Hinduism
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A CYLINDRICAL PUDDINGSTONE SNUFF BOTTLE, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
十八至十九世紀抱子石鼻煙壺
Sold for €1,040
including Buyer's Premium
China. The elegant yet traditional ‘Rouleau’ form is supported on a circular foot ring and rises to a short straight neck with a flat rim. The opaque, greyish-brown matrix highlighted with large patches of dark chocolate- and reddish-brown veins.
Inscriptions: The spoon inscribed in Japanese, ‘Number 33 Yoneda’.
Provenance: From a private collection in South California, USA. Acquired by the previous owner’s stepfather while stationed in Tianjin, China, in the 1920s, and thence by descent in the same family. The base with an old collector’s number, ‘79’.
Condition: Very good condition, few tiny nibbles to the rim and foot. The stone with natural fissures.
Stopper: Hardstone, stained bone spoon with inscriptions
Weight: 62.1 g
Dimensions: Height including stopper 86 mm. Diameter neck 12 mm and mouth 5 mm
This simple form may well reflect the deliberate choice of the artist to tame the busy pattern of the material. Similar snuff bottles have the palace-style upper neck rim and tapering form that suggest this type of puddingstone might have been carved at and for the court. A further link between this cylindrical form and the court is to be found in a series of cylindrical glass bottles, many of imperial color and attributable to the court (see, for instance, the ruby glass example in Au Hang 1993, no. 11, which is very similar in shape to this example). Others are known in white nephrite of exactly this form, (see, for instance, Au Hang 1993, no. 99). The existence of a range of different materials in identical form alerts one, as always, to the possibility of an imperial source.
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 31 May 2015, lot 33
Price: HKD 162,500 or approx. EUR 23,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A cylindrical puddingstone snuff bottle, Qing dynasty, 18th / 19th century
Expert remark: Compare the related form and material. Note the size (56 mm).
十八至十九世紀抱子石鼻煙壺
中國 。圓柱體，直頸，口部略微外撇。此煙壺造型簡潔，變化不一的鵝卵石紋，意態自然，渾然天成。
款識：壺勺上刻著日文 ‘卅三米田’
來源：美國加利福尼亞私人收藏。之前的藏家的繼父曾於上世紀二十年代在中國天津駐留，在同一家族保存。底部有舊藏家標籤 ‘79’。
品相：狀況極好，邊緣和足部有輕微磕損，石料有天然裂縫。
壺蓋：硬石，石勺
重量：62.1 克
尺寸：含蓋高86 毫米. 頸部直徑12 毫米 ，壺口直徑5 毫米
拍賣結果比較：
形制：非常相近
拍賣：香港蘇富比，2015年5月31日，lot 33
價格：HKD 162,500（相當於今日EUR 23,000）
描述：清十八 / 十九世紀抱子石光素鼻煙壺
專家評論：比較相近的外形和材質。請注意尺寸 (56 毫米)。
China. The elegant yet traditional ‘Rouleau’ form is supported on a circular foot ring and rises to a short straight neck with a flat rim. The opaque, greyish-brown matrix highlighted with large patches of dark chocolate- and reddish-brown veins.
Inscriptions: The spoon inscribed in Japanese, ‘Number 33 Yoneda’.
Provenance: From a private collection in South California, USA. Acquired by the previous owner’s stepfather while stationed in Tianjin, China, in the 1920s, and thence by descent in the same family. The base with an old collector’s number, ‘79’.
Condition: Very good condition, few tiny nibbles to the rim and foot. The stone with natural fissures.
Stopper: Hardstone, stained bone spoon with inscriptions
Weight: 62.1 g
Dimensions: Height including stopper 86 mm. Diameter neck 12 mm and mouth 5 mm
This simple form may well reflect the deliberate choice of the artist to tame the busy pattern of the material. Similar snuff bottles have the palace-style upper neck rim and tapering form that suggest this type of puddingstone might have been carved at and for the court. A further link between this cylindrical form and the court is to be found in a series of cylindrical glass bottles, many of imperial color and attributable to the court (see, for instance, the ruby glass example in Au Hang 1993, no. 11, which is very similar in shape to this example). Others are known in white nephrite of exactly this form, (see, for instance, Au Hang 1993, no. 99). The existence of a range of different materials in identical form alerts one, as always, to the possibility of an imperial source.
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 31 May 2015, lot 33
Price: HKD 162,500 or approx. EUR 23,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A cylindrical puddingstone snuff bottle, Qing dynasty, 18th / 19th century
Expert remark: Compare the related form and material. Note the size (56 mm).
十八至十九世紀抱子石鼻煙壺
中國 。圓柱體，直頸，口部略微外撇。此煙壺造型簡潔，變化不一的鵝卵石紋，意態自然，渾然天成。
款識：壺勺上刻著日文 ‘卅三米田’
來源：美國加利福尼亞私人收藏。之前的藏家的繼父曾於上世紀二十年代在中國天津駐留，在同一家族保存。底部有舊藏家標籤 ‘79’。
品相：狀況極好，邊緣和足部有輕微磕損，石料有天然裂縫。
壺蓋：硬石，石勺
重量：62.1 克
尺寸：含蓋高86 毫米. 頸部直徑12 毫米 ，壺口直徑5 毫米
拍賣結果比較：
形制：非常相近
拍賣：香港蘇富比，2015年5月31日，lot 33
價格：HKD 162,500（相當於今日EUR 23,000）
描述：清十八 / 十九世紀抱子石光素鼻煙壺
專家評論：比較相近的外形和材質。請注意尺寸 (56 毫米)。
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