Two Chinese overlay glass snuff bottles Mid Qing dynasty, the chilong bottle...
Two Chinese overlay glass snuff bottles
Mid Qing dynasty, the chilong bottle probably Imperial workshops
The first, a yellow overlay ruby glass bottle, carved to either side with a coiled chilong, coral stopper, 6.6cm high without stopper; the second, a white overlay translucent wine-yellow glass bottle of flattened pear-shape carved to either side with a bat suspending an overly formalised 'shou' character, green hardstone stopper, 7.7cm high without stopper (2).
清中期 套料螭龍紋及蝠紋鼻煙壺兩件
Cf. see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Snuff Bottles, Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2003, p. 41, pl. 58, for a yellow overlay on ruby glass bottle decorated with a dragon, although a slightly different shape.
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:
Both with expected light wear. A few nibbles and bubbles.
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Two Chinese overlay glass snuff bottles
Mid Qing dynasty, the chilong bottle probably Imperial workshops
The first, a yellow overlay ruby glass bottle, carved to either side with a coiled chilong, coral stopper, 6.6cm high without stopper; the second, a white overlay translucent wine-yellow glass bottle of flattened pear-shape carved to either side with a bat suspending an overly formalised 'shou' character, green hardstone stopper, 7.7cm high without stopper (2).
清中期 套料螭龍紋及蝠紋鼻煙壺兩件
Cf. see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Snuff Bottles, Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2003, p. 41, pl. 58, for a yellow overlay on ruby glass bottle decorated with a dragon, although a slightly different shape.
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:
Both with expected light wear. A few nibbles and bubbles.
