Three Chinese amber snuff bottles Late Qing dynasty The first, moulded and...
Three Chinese amber snuff bottles
Late Qing dynasty
The first, moulded and carved as a double gourd-form woven flask, matching stopper, 4.7cm high without stopper, 5.8cm high overall; the second formed as a peach flanked by a bat, stopper, 3.7cm high without stopper; the third also moulded; flanked with a clambering chilong, stopper, 5cm high without stopper (3).
清晚期 琥珀鼻煙壺三件
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 three are formed from heat moulded smaller pieces of amber, therefore the lines where the pieces were joined are still visible. all with expected wear and a few scattered nibbled and flakes.
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Three Chinese amber snuff bottles
Late Qing dynasty
The first, moulded and carved as a double gourd-form woven flask, matching stopper, 4.7cm high without stopper, 5.8cm high overall; the second formed as a peach flanked by a bat, stopper, 3.7cm high without stopper; the third also moulded; flanked with a clambering chilong, stopper, 5cm high without stopper (3).
清晚期 琥珀鼻煙壺三件
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 three are formed from heat moulded smaller pieces of amber, therefore the lines where the pieces were joined are still visible. all with expected wear and a few scattered nibbled and flakes.
