221 - A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘EIGHTEEN MONKEY’ SNUFF BOTTLE 1874-1900

A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘EIGHTEEN MONKEY’ SNUFF BOTTLE 1874-1900 To Be Sold Without Reserve Of rectangular form, painted with eighteen playful monkeys in a continuous landscape, satirizing the Buddhist nature of the Eighteen Lohan, the base with an apocryphal four-character Chenghua mar Height: 6.9cm Provenance: Stadsauktionen, Stockholm, 1968 Guo’an Collection, inventory no. 133, (Ann Kreuger) Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 30th October 2000, lot 677 Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd, 15th November 2000, (a copy of the original invoice available) This is one of a series of blue and white bottles of rectangular form which are decorated with what appear to be scenes from printed books, since the pages wrap around the shape, and the two edges are divided at one corner. There is a series of such bottles in the Snively Collection, Seattle, and most of them are dated to around 1898. This is an unusual subject for the group 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