Live Auction 19770From Beijing to Versailles, the V.W.S. collection
TABATIÈRE EN LAQUE ROUGE
Lot 589 PROPERTY FROM THE V.W.S. COLLECTION

TABATIÈRE EN LAQUE ROUGE

CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, ÉPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

Closed14 December 2022

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EUR 5,040

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TABATIÈRE EN LAQUE ROUGE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, ÉPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)
De forme balustre, elle est sculptée de personnages. Une inscription Guxi Tianzi est incisée à la base ; bouchon en métal, petits accidents.
Hauteur : 6,2 cm. (2 1/2 in.)

Acquired by the father of V.W.S. (1890-1977) in China in the 1930s.
The V.W.S. (1918-1974) Collection.

Specialist note

See a very close example of carved lacquer snuff bottle decorated with musicians illustrated in Helen White, Snuff Bottles from China, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, London, 1990, pp.286-287, fig. 2.