45 - A YIXING ENAMELLED ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE1780-1840 A YIXING ENAMELLED ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE1780-1840

A YIXING ENAMELLED ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE1780-1840 A YIXING ENAMELLED ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE1780-1840 To Be Sold Without Reserve Of shouldered ovoid form, painted with two recessed landscape panels on a white ground, reserved against a blue ground, the foot rim and interior white Height: 6.5cm Provenance: Bob C. Stevens Collection, Part I, Honolulu, November 7th, 1981, lot 71 Exhibited, Mikimoto, Catalogue, no.91 Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Eric Young, Part IV, 28th October 1993, lot 1242, (a copy of the original invoice available) Illustrated: Illustrated by Bob Stevens, The Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles, no. 322 Illustrated Arts of Asia, September-October, 1973, p.34, fig.17 Front cover of the ICSBS Journal, Autumn 2005, Volume XXXVII, Number 2 Ω This Lot was imported from outside of the UK, under the Temporary Admission regime 5% import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer” and 20% VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium