Lot 1055
  • 1055

TWO LAC-BURGAUTE SNUFF BOTTLES JAPAN, 19TH / 20TH CENTURY

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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.

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.