Two Chinese blue and white soft-paste snuff bottles Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century...
Two Chinese blue and white soft-paste snuff bottles
Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century
The first decorated with a battle scene, 7.2cm high without stopper; the second with a lady and a scholar seated at a table, 9cm high without stopper (2).
清十八/十九世紀 青花繪人物故事圖紋軟胎鼻煙壺兩件
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:
Taller bottle with restoration to neck, approx. 12x8mm and short rim hairline approx. 4mm long. Minor nibbling to foot.
The other bottle with a shallow firing line to glaze to the edge of the foot. Craquelure all showing up under UV so extremely hard to say with certainty that there are no hairlines, although there do not appear to be any.
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Two Chinese blue and white soft-paste snuff bottles
Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century
The first decorated with a battle scene, 7.2cm high without stopper; the second with a lady and a scholar seated at a table, 9cm high without stopper (2).
清十八/十九世紀 青花繪人物故事圖紋軟胎鼻煙壺兩件
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:
Taller bottle with restoration to neck, approx. 12x8mm and short rim hairline approx. 4mm long. Minor nibbling to foot.
The other bottle with a shallow firing line to glaze to the edge of the foot. Craquelure all showing up under UV so extremely hard to say with certainty that there are no hairlines, although there do not appear to be any.
