Seven Chinese inside-painted snuff bottles 20th century Comprising: three painted with...
Seven Chinese inside-painted snuff bottles
20th century
Comprising: three painted with landscapes, one inscribed 仿南田老人筆意 fang nantian laoren biyi, signed 信亭作 Xing Ting, another signed 劉大勝 Liu Dasheng, 7.5cm, 6.2cm and 6.1cm high without stoppers; one painted with two ladies reading a book at candlelight, signed 王曉嘉, signed Wang Xiaojia, 5.6cm high without stopper; a conjoined bottle also painted with landscapes to one side, crane and deer to the other, the landscape side inscribed qi wu qing zhuxuan, signed 乐元 Le Yuan, 5.2cm high without stoppers; and two red overlay on transparent glass bottles, one painted with mandarin ducks in a lotus pond to one side, a landscape to the other, inscribed 青山郭外斜, Qingshan guowaixie, signed 信亭作 Xin Tin; 5.8cm high without stopper, the other also with a landscape to one side, and hundred antiques to the other, 6.4cm high without stopper (7).
二十世紀 玻璃內畫鼻煙壺七件，「仿南田老人筆意」、「劉大勝」、「王曉嘉」、「 乐元」、「青山郭外斜」、「信亭作」款
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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Seven Chinese inside-painted snuff bottles
20th century
Comprising: three painted with landscapes, one inscribed 仿南田老人筆意 fang nantian laoren biyi, signed 信亭作 Xing Ting, another signed 劉大勝 Liu Dasheng, 7.5cm, 6.2cm and 6.1cm high without stoppers; one painted with two ladies reading a book at candlelight, signed 王曉嘉, signed Wang Xiaojia, 5.6cm high without stopper; a conjoined bottle also painted with landscapes to one side, crane and deer to the other, the landscape side inscribed qi wu qing zhuxuan, signed 乐元 Le Yuan, 5.2cm high without stoppers; and two red overlay on transparent glass bottles, one painted with mandarin ducks in a lotus pond to one side, a landscape to the other, inscribed 青山郭外斜, Qingshan guowaixie, signed 信亭作 Xin Tin; 5.8cm high without stopper, the other also with a landscape to one side, and hundred antiques to the other, 6.4cm high without stopper (7).
二十世紀 玻璃內畫鼻煙壺七件，「仿南田老人筆意」、「劉大勝」、「王曉嘉」、「 乐元」、「青山郭外斜」、「信亭作」款
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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