Four Chinese overlay glass 'hundred antiques' and 'Buddhist Emblems' snuff bottles Qing...
Four Chinese overlay glass 'hundred antiques' and 'Buddhist Emblems' snuff bottles
Qing dynasty, 19th century - 20th century
Comprising: one cinnabar overlay white glass slender bottle carved with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, 6.7cm high without stopper; a red overlay on snowstorm ground bottle, 5.7cm high without stopper; a green overlay milky snowstorm glass bottle carved with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, 6.1cm high without stopper; and a further red overlay snowstorm glass bottle decorated with a hundred antiques, 6.5cm high without stopper (4).
清十九 - 二十世紀 套料博古紋及八吉祥紋鼻煙壺四件
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 overlay glass 'hundred antiques' and 'Buddhist Emblems' snuff bottles
Qing dynasty, 19th century - 20th century
Comprising: one cinnabar overlay white glass slender bottle carved with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, 6.7cm high without stopper; a red overlay on snowstorm ground bottle, 5.7cm high without stopper; a green overlay milky snowstorm glass bottle carved with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, 6.1cm high without stopper; and a further red overlay snowstorm glass bottle decorated with a hundred antiques, 6.5cm high without stopper (4).
清十九 - 二十世紀 套料博古紋及八吉祥紋鼻煙壺四件
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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