A Chinese blue and white 'Ming-style lotus' snuff bottle Qing dynasty, Qianlong...
A Chinese blue and white 'Ming-style lotus' snuff bottle
Qing dynasty, Qianlong mark and period
The cylindrical body painted with a continuous lotus meander, the base with four-character seal mark in cobalt blue, stopper, 7cm high.
清乾隆 仿明式青花蓮紋鼻煙壺，青花篆書「乾隆年製」款
Cf. snuff bottles in this pattern were popular from the Kangxi period and throughout the 18th century. A bottle of the same shape and decoration, but unmarked, dated to the Kangxi period, is illustrated in The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum, The Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2003, pl. 295; another similar from the Qianlong period is illustrated by R. Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottle Masterpieces from the Rietberg Museum Zuerich, Zuerich, 1993, pl.10.
Snuff bottles from a Private Collection (Lots 95-238), mostly formed by Frederick George Ruddle (1886-1960), from Carshalton, Surrey, and Lily Beatrice Ruddle (neé Etherington) 1887-1972, from Sutton, Surrey.
The Ruddle family were owners of a large bakery in Sutton, and property developers in Sutton and Carshalton, Surrey
Frederick was by trade, a sign writer; Frederick and Lily left England initially for South Africa and subsequently for Australia, where they settled shortly before the first world war. They had eight children.
Frederick then took up an executive role for an Australia, Southeast Asia and South Sea Island trading company, Burns Philp, which took him to travel extensively in East Asia; it is presumably during the course of these travels that he had the opportunity to discover Chinese and East Asian Art, and start amassing his collection of snuff bottles, amongst other things. He was a passionate collector of many things beside snuff bottles, including Oceanic Art and Orientalia.
In 1978, the current vendor, a grandchild of Frederick, came to England to attend Cambridge university. At the time he was given power of attorney from the executors of the estate to assist in and arrange the sale of Frederick and Lily’s remaining real estate and properties in Sutton and Carshalton.
As thanks for his assistance, the executors, Molly and Hilda Ruddle, gave him the collection of snuff bottles, in 1980, which he lovingly preserved, researched, and added to over the years
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A Chinese blue and white 'Ming-style lotus' snuff bottle
Qing dynasty, Qianlong mark and period
The cylindrical body painted with a continuous lotus meander, the base with four-character seal mark in cobalt blue, stopper, 7cm high.
清乾隆 仿明式青花蓮紋鼻煙壺，青花篆書「乾隆年製」款
Cf. snuff bottles in this pattern were popular from the Kangxi period and throughout the 18th century. A bottle of the same shape and decoration, but unmarked, dated to the Kangxi period, is illustrated in The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum, The Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2003, pl. 295; another similar from the Qianlong period is illustrated by R. Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottle Masterpieces from the Rietberg Museum Zuerich, Zuerich, 1993, pl.10.
Snuff bottles from a Private Collection (Lots 95-238), mostly formed by Frederick George Ruddle (1886-1960), from Carshalton, Surrey, and Lily Beatrice Ruddle (neé Etherington) 1887-1972, from Sutton, Surrey.
The Ruddle family were owners of a large bakery in Sutton, and property developers in Sutton and Carshalton, Surrey
Frederick was by trade, a sign writer; Frederick and Lily left England initially for South Africa and subsequently for Australia, where they settled shortly before the first world war. They had eight children.
Frederick then took up an executive role for an Australia, Southeast Asia and South Sea Island trading company, Burns Philp, which took him to travel extensively in East Asia; it is presumably during the course of these travels that he had the opportunity to discover Chinese and East Asian Art, and start amassing his collection of snuff bottles, amongst other things. He was a passionate collector of many things beside snuff bottles, including Oceanic Art and Orientalia.
In 1978, the current vendor, a grandchild of Frederick, came to England to attend Cambridge university. At the time he was given power of attorney from the executors of the estate to assist in and arrange the sale of Frederick and Lily’s remaining real estate and properties in Sutton and Carshalton.
As thanks for his assistance, the executors, Molly and Hilda Ruddle, gave him the collection of snuff bottles, in 1980, which he lovingly preserved, researched, and added to over the years
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