Three Chinese copper-red and blue and white 'dragon' snuff bottles Late Qing...
Three Chinese copper-red and blue and white 'dragon' snuff bottles
Late Qing dynasty
The first finely painted with a sinuous cobalt-blue dragon emerging from copper-red clouds to chase a flaming pearl, stopper, 8.2cm high; the second with a pair of confronting copper-red dragons chasing a flaming pearl whilst emerging from tumultuous cobalt-blue waves, stopper, 7.2cm high; the third also with a blue dragon emerging from a copper-red sky, the base with copper-red waves, 8.2cm high (3).
清晚期 青花釉裡紅龍紋鼻煙壺三件
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
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Three Chinese copper-red and blue and white 'dragon' snuff bottles
Late Qing dynasty
The first finely painted with a sinuous cobalt-blue dragon emerging from copper-red clouds to chase a flaming pearl, stopper, 8.2cm high; the second with a pair of confronting copper-red dragons chasing a flaming pearl whilst emerging from tumultuous cobalt-blue waves, stopper, 7.2cm high; the third also with a blue dragon emerging from a copper-red sky, the base with copper-red waves, 8.2cm high (3).
清晚期 青花釉裡紅龍紋鼻煙壺三件
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
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