Five Chinese overlay snuff bottles 20th century Comprising: a blue overlay on...
Five Chinese overlay snuff bottles
20th century
Comprising: a blue overlay on white glass melon-shaped snuff bottle, 5cm wide; a six-colour overlay on snowstorm ground bottle carved on each side with five bats around a 'shou' roundel, above braking waves, 5.7cm high without stopper; a five-colour overlay on snowstorm ground bottle carved with chilong above breaking waves, 6.7cm high; a three-colour overlay on white glass bottle decorated with peonies, 5.3cm high without stopper; and a six-colour overlay on translucent snowstorm ground bottle carved with carps, 5.4cm high without stopper (5).
二十世紀 套料鼻煙壺五件
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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Five Chinese overlay snuff bottles
20th century
Comprising: a blue overlay on white glass melon-shaped snuff bottle, 5cm wide; a six-colour overlay on snowstorm ground bottle carved on each side with five bats around a 'shou' roundel, above braking waves, 5.7cm high without stopper; a five-colour overlay on snowstorm ground bottle carved with chilong above breaking waves, 6.7cm high; a three-colour overlay on white glass bottle decorated with peonies, 5.3cm high without stopper; and a six-colour overlay on translucent snowstorm ground bottle carved with carps, 5.4cm high without stopper (5).
二十世紀 套料鼻煙壺五件
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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