GROUP OF FOUR PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLES
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER
£1,512
Auction: 17 May 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
清及更晚 康熙款 青花釉裏紅空城計圖、青花人物紋、同治款 粉彩四方人物圖 及 叔瀾藏款 粉彩雄鷄紋長方鼻烟壺 木座(共四件)
comprising: one of copper red with underglaze blue, depicting the ‘Empty Fort Strategy’ scene from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, base inscribed with a six-character Kangxi mark, 7.8cm high; one blue and white painted with figures, 7.2cm high; one famille rose square-section decorated with figures, the base with a two-character Tongzhi mark, 8.3cm high; and one of rectangular form painted with a cockerel on two sides, the base inscribed ‘Shu Lan Cang’, 6.6cm high, all with two wooden stands (4)
Dimensions
6.6cm to 8.3cm high
Provenance
Private Scottish collection, Edinburgh; collected Asian Art in the 1960s to 1970s whilst working in Asia for The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (HSBC) as a senior executive, thence by descent.