Four Chinese iron-red snuff bottles Late Qing dynasty-20th century Comprising: an iron-red...
Four Chinese iron-red snuff bottles
Late Qing dynasty-20th century
Comprising: an iron-red and gilt bottle enamelled with dragons above waves, apocryphal underglaze blue Qianlong mark to base, 6.7cm high without stopper; a bottle moulded with animal mask handles at the shoulders and enamelled with a lady and a scholar travelling, 6.7cm high without stopper; a flattened pear-shaped bottle enamelled with a warrior on either side, 7.1cm high; and an iron-red and famille rose bottle enamelled with Shoulao to one side and a female Immortal to the other, 7.7cm high, all with associated stoppers (4).
清晚期 - 二十世紀 礬紅繪鼻煙壺四件
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
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Four Chinese iron-red snuff bottles
Late Qing dynasty-20th century
Comprising: an iron-red and gilt bottle enamelled with dragons above waves, apocryphal underglaze blue Qianlong mark to base, 6.7cm high without stopper; a bottle moulded with animal mask handles at the shoulders and enamelled with a lady and a scholar travelling, 6.7cm high without stopper; a flattened pear-shaped bottle enamelled with a warrior on either side, 7.1cm high; and an iron-red and famille rose bottle enamelled with Shoulao to one side and a female Immortal to the other, 7.7cm high, all with associated stoppers (4).
清晚期 - 二十世紀 礬紅繪鼻煙壺四件
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
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