Four Chinese cylindrical snuff bottles Qing dynasty, 19th/20th century Comprising: a blue...
Four Chinese cylindrical snuff bottles
Qing dynasty, 19th/20th century
Comprising: a blue and white 'dragon' bottle, 7.8cm high without stopper; a blue and white bottle painted with dragon and phoenix, 7.8cm high without stopper; a blue and white and crackle-glazed bottle with a hundred antiques design, 8.5cm high without stopper; and a black and green bottle enamelled with two scholars on horseback accompanied by a boy attendant, apocryphal iron-red Kangxi four-character mark to base, 7.2cm high without stopper (4).
清十九/二十世紀 鼻煙壺四件
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
Condition Report:
All with expected light wear and mild firing imperfections. Rubbing to enamel of black/green bottle. Phoenix and dragon bottle with two long glaze lines to body, which would not appear to go through the body, largest approx. 50 mm long.
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Four Chinese cylindrical snuff bottles
Qing dynasty, 19th/20th century
Comprising: a blue and white 'dragon' bottle, 7.8cm high without stopper; a blue and white bottle painted with dragon and phoenix, 7.8cm high without stopper; a blue and white and crackle-glazed bottle with a hundred antiques design, 8.5cm high without stopper; and a black and green bottle enamelled with two scholars on horseback accompanied by a boy attendant, apocryphal iron-red Kangxi four-character mark to base, 7.2cm high without stopper (4).
清十九/二十世紀 鼻煙壺四件
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
Condition Report:
All with expected light wear and mild firing imperfections. Rubbing to enamel of black/green bottle. Phoenix and dragon bottle with two long glaze lines to body, which would not appear to go through the body, largest approx. 50 mm long.
