51 - A RARE YIXING ENAMELLED STONEWARE SNUFF BOTTLE 1800-1860

A RARE YIXING ENAMELLED STONEWARE SNUFF BOTTLE 1800-1860 To Be Sold Without Reserve Of flattened ovoid form, vividly painted against a chalky-white ground with a continuous lakeside landscape with two pagodas nestled among towering cliffs and trees, with flocks of flying geese and a solitary boatman in the distanc Height 6cm Provenance: Bob C. Stevens Collection Sotheby’s New York, Fine and Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Bob Stevens, Part III, 25th June 1982, lot 84 Christies New York 21st March 2002, lot 57 Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd, 21st March 2002, lot 57, (a copy of the original invoice available) Exhibited: Chinese Snuff Bottles, Taipei Gallery, New York, October 1993, p.13 Literature: B. Stevens, The Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no.338 Arts of Asia, September-October 1973, p.45. fig.21 This is a fine example of a broad group of enamelled Yixing bottles dating from the first half of the nineteenth century and all, apparently, painted by the same workshop. Compare a very similar bottle in R.Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, London, 1995, p. 372, no. 243. For a similarly decorated bottle by the same hand see G.Tsang and H.Moss, Snuff Bottles of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1978, p.87, no. 121. See also another similar bottle by the same hand, illustrated in B. Stevens, The Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no.339 Ω This Lot was imported outside of the UK, under the Temporary Admission scheme. 5% import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer’ price and 20% VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium’. If proof of export outside of the UK can be provided for this item within 3 months of the sale date, then the VAT can be refunded. Please contact us for further details and shipping advice