Bruce Maclaren
Global Head, Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy
Lot 123
A MIXED METAL SNUFF BOTTLE Japan, 1868-1920
21 September 2020, 12:00 EDT
New YorkUS$1,500 - US$2,500
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Dessa Goddard
Senior Vice President, US Head, Asian Art Group
A MIXED METAL SNUFF BOTTLE
Japan, 1868-1920
Of flattened shield form, with a threaded stopper and a ruyi form foot, the copper ground body embellished with other alloys, front and back bearing the same design of a central panel with an array of blossoms bordered by eleven butterflies, bearing kui dragons with bifurcated tails as handles on the sides, with a later chain strap.
2 1/4in (5.5cm) high
Of flattened shield form, with a threaded stopper and a ruyi form foot, the copper ground body embellished with other alloys, front and back bearing the same design of a central panel with an array of blossoms bordered by eleven butterflies, bearing kui dragons with bifurcated tails as handles on the sides, with a later chain strap.
2 1/4in (5.5cm) high
Footnotes
日本 1868-1920年 銅模菊花鼻煙壺
Several similar brass and copper alloy mixed metal bottles, likely made in Japan for export to China, are extant. See Bob Stevens, Snuff Bottles,, New York, 1976, p.218, pl.812; and Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottle IV, London, 1991, p,6, no.6.
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