A fine Chinese copper-red 'dragon' cylindrical snuff bottle Qing dynasty, Imperial workshops,...
A fine Chinese copper-red 'dragon' cylindrical snuff bottle
Qing dynasty, Imperial workshops, 1810-1860
With wide mouth with gently convex lip and slightly concave base surrounded by a wide, flat foot, the cylindrical body finely painted in a bright underglaze red with a pair of sinuous dragons emerging from tumultuous waves to chase a flaming pearl, the shoulder and neck with further clouds, the copper fired to a lively red with a few spots of greyish-green under the slightly bluish, transparent glaze, associated stopper, 7.9cm high without stopper.
一八一零 - 一八六零 御製釉裡紅龍紋鼻煙壺
Cf. the painting on the present bottle is extremely precise and fired to an ideal colour; see a slightly earlier bottle of slightly different shape but comparable decoration in the Meriem collection, part II,19 March 2008, lot 201.
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 fine Chinese copper-red 'dragon' cylindrical snuff bottle
Qing dynasty, Imperial workshops, 1810-1860
With wide mouth with gently convex lip and slightly concave base surrounded by a wide, flat foot, the cylindrical body finely painted in a bright underglaze red with a pair of sinuous dragons emerging from tumultuous waves to chase a flaming pearl, the shoulder and neck with further clouds, the copper fired to a lively red with a few spots of greyish-green under the slightly bluish, transparent glaze, associated stopper, 7.9cm high without stopper.
一八一零 - 一八六零 御製釉裡紅龍紋鼻煙壺
Cf. the painting on the present bottle is extremely precise and fired to an ideal colour; see a slightly earlier bottle of slightly different shape but comparable decoration in the Meriem collection, part II,19 March 2008, lot 201.
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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