λ A CHINESE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE

λ A CHINESE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY

5.8cm.

From an English private collection, Yorkshire, purchased from Clare Chu at Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles; previously The Chepsted Collection.

Each side moulded in relief and painted in iron-red with a fan-tailed goldfish.

Provenance: from an English private collection, Yorkshire, purchased from Clare Chu at Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles; previously The Chepsted Collection purchased from Sotheby's New York 3rd June 1992, lot 431.

Published: Edwin Palmer, The Chepsted Notebook: A Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, p.167, no. 173.