Two Chinese rock crystal snuff bottles and one translucent glass imitating crystal...
Two Chinese rock crystal snuff bottles and one translucent glass imitating crystal snuff bottle
Late Qing dynasty
Comprising: a plain rock crystal bottle of flattened tapering rectangular form, 6cm high without stopper; a crystal bottle of flattened scalloped circular section, incised with a shou medallion to either side, 5.2cm high without stopper; and a translucent glass bottle, carved with a pagoda by a pine on one side, and figures in a boat to the other, under a three-character inscription, 6.2cm high without stopper (3).
清晚期 水晶雕鼻煙壺兩件及透明料鼻煙壺一件
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:
Crystal bottles with expected inclusions and fissures to stone; the carved one also with hairline to foot, approx. 7mm long, and a shorter hairline to rim; the pain one with small rim chip. Glass bottl with shallow flake to foot. All with expected wear and a few nibbles.
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Two Chinese rock crystal snuff bottles and one translucent glass imitating crystal snuff bottle
Late Qing dynasty
Comprising: a plain rock crystal bottle of flattened tapering rectangular form, 6cm high without stopper; a crystal bottle of flattened scalloped circular section, incised with a shou medallion to either side, 5.2cm high without stopper; and a translucent glass bottle, carved with a pagoda by a pine on one side, and figures in a boat to the other, under a three-character inscription, 6.2cm high without stopper (3).
清晚期 水晶雕鼻煙壺兩件及透明料鼻煙壺一件
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:
Crystal bottles with expected inclusions and fissures to stone; the carved one also with hairline to foot, approx. 7mm long, and a shorter hairline to rim; the pain one with small rim chip. Glass bottl with shallow flake to foot. All with expected wear and a few nibbles.
