A gilt and silvered Mongolian-style snuff bottle and stopper Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century Comprising: one bottle with silvered and gilt reticulated repoussé copper outer body decorated with Buddhist Emblems and bats centred around a coral cabochon on either side, the screw-on lid set with coral and turquoise cabochons, 6cm high without and 7.5cm high with stopper. 清十八/十九世紀 局部鎏金銀蒙古式鼻煙壺 Cf. a snuff bottle of similar shape and identical construction, also with central coral cabochon to either side, from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Marketbreiter Collection, dated 19th century, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3 December 2021, lot 1114. Snuff bottles from a Private Collection (Lots 95-238), mostly formed by Frederick George Ruddle (1886-1960), from Carshalton, Surrey, and Lily Beatrice Ruddle (neé Etherington) 1887-1972, from Sutton, Surrey. The Ruddle family were owners of a large bakery in Sutton, and property developers in Sutton and Carshalton, Surrey Frederick was by trade, a sign writer; Frederick and Lily left England initially for South Africa and subsequently for Australia, where they settled shortly before the first world war. They had eight children. Frederick then took up an executive role for an Australia, Southeast Asia and South Sea Island trading company, Burns Philp, which took him to travel extensively in East Asia; it is presumably during the course of these travels that he had the opportunity to discover Chinese and East Asian Art, and start amassing his collection of snuff bottles, amongst other things. He was a passionate collector of many things beside snuff bottles, including Oceanic Art and Orientalia. In 1978, the current vendor, a grandchild of Frederick, came to England to attend Cambridge university. At the time he was given power of attorney from the executors of the estate to assist in and arrange the sale of Frederick and Lily’s remaining real estate and properties in Sutton and Carshalton. As thanks for his assistance, the executors, Molly and Hilda Ruddle, gave him the collection of snuff bottles, in 1980, which he lovingly preserved, researched, and added to over the years