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TWO LAC-BURGAUTE SNUFF BOTTLES JAPAN, 19TH / 20TH CENTURY
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description
- wood, mother of pearl
the first of flattened ovoid form, the inlay decoration of egrets in a lotus pond, the reverse with figures boating on a carved cinnabar lacquer ground, the second of flattened flask form, inlaid with a scholar examining a scroll with an attendant in a bamboo grove, each on a metal body, stoppers (4)
Provenance
The cinnabar lacquer-ground bottle:
Collection of Alex S. Cussons.
Hugh Moss, London, 1976.
Collection of Alex S. Cussons.
Hugh Moss, London, 1976.
The lac-burgaute bottle:
Eugene Sung, New York, 1973.
Literature
The cinnabar lacquer-ground bottle:
Hugh Moss, 'The Alex S. Cussons Collection', Chinese Snuff Bottles, vol. 1, London, 1966, fig. 2.
Hugh Moss, 'The Alex S. Cussons Collection', Chinese Snuff Bottles, vol. 1, London, 1966, fig. 2.