Three Chinese red overlay translucent and snowstorm glass snuff bottles Qing dynasty,...
Three Chinese red overlay translucent and snowstorm glass snuff bottles
Qing dynasty, 19th century
Comprising: a red overlay snowstorm glass bottle carved with a deer in a pine grove, 6.7cm high without stopper; a red overlay translucent glass bottle also with deer on the recto, pine on the verso, and a pair of mock-embossed, mask-and-loop handles to the shoulders, 6.8cm high without stopper; and a further red overlay snowstorm glass bottle, carved to one side with a horse by a willow, the reverse with an eagle and bear under a pine tree, 6.5cm high without stopper, all with associated stoppers (3).
清十九世紀 套紅料鼻煙壺三件
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 with light wear and a few nibbles to edges, to carved design and to foot/mouth. Deer and prunus bottle with also a couple of shallow flakes to the exterior of the mouth. Horse, and badger and eagle also with a shallow flake to the exterior of the mouth which has been polished off.
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Three Chinese red overlay translucent and snowstorm glass snuff bottles
Qing dynasty, 19th century
Comprising: a red overlay snowstorm glass bottle carved with a deer in a pine grove, 6.7cm high without stopper; a red overlay translucent glass bottle also with deer on the recto, pine on the verso, and a pair of mock-embossed, mask-and-loop handles to the shoulders, 6.8cm high without stopper; and a further red overlay snowstorm glass bottle, carved to one side with a horse by a willow, the reverse with an eagle and bear under a pine tree, 6.5cm high without stopper, all with associated stoppers (3).
清十九世紀 套紅料鼻煙壺三件
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 with light wear and a few nibbles to edges, to carved design and to foot/mouth. Deer and prunus bottle with also a couple of shallow flakes to the exterior of the mouth. Horse, and badger and eagle also with a shallow flake to the exterior of the mouth which has been polished off.
