Yixing Zisha Wares - 15th November 2011

Lot 321

Two Yixing snuff bottles 19th century

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £2000

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Description

Two Yixing snuff bottles 19th century, one of flattened form, enamelled each side with an inset panel of landscape scenes, the other hexafoil and gilded to one side with a maiden and her attendant, the reverse with calligraphy, the latter with an impressed mark, 7cm max. (2) Cf. K S Lo, The Stonewares of Yixing from the Ming Period to the Presrnt Day, p.141. Provenance: from the collection of Peter and Susan Wain.