A Chinese lapis lazuli 'gourds' snuff bottle and a stained hardstone snuff...
A Chinese lapis lazuli 'gourds' snuff bottle and a stained hardstone snuff bottle
Late Qing dynasty
The lapis lazuli bottle carved as a double gourd flanked by leaves and smaller fruits, 5.1cm high without stopper; the hardstone bottle of roughly spade shape, stained a bright blue in imitation of lapis lazuli, 5.5cm high without stopper (2).
清晚期 青金石雕葫蘆式鼻煙壺及硬石雕鼻煙壺
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.
Condition Report:
Expected inclusions and fissure to stone of both and nibbling to edges. The Spade-shaped bottle is likely to have been stained blue. The double gourd bottle has a number of fine fissures to surface particularly to the short side, and some greenish surface residue just underneath the mouth.
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A Chinese lapis lazuli 'gourds' snuff bottle and a stained hardstone snuff bottle
Late Qing dynasty
The lapis lazuli bottle carved as a double gourd flanked by leaves and smaller fruits, 5.1cm high without stopper; the hardstone bottle of roughly spade shape, stained a bright blue in imitation of lapis lazuli, 5.5cm high without stopper (2).
清晚期 青金石雕葫蘆式鼻煙壺及硬石雕鼻煙壺
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.
Condition Report:
Expected inclusions and fissure to stone of both and nibbling to edges. The Spade-shaped bottle is likely to have been stained blue. The double gourd bottle has a number of fine fissures to surface particularly to the short side, and some greenish surface residue just underneath the mouth.
