Posted 9 years ago
kyratango
(439 items)
Extracted from my crowded display cabinet ;-)
My mother bought it in the 70' at a Chinese exposition at Galeries Lafayette, in Paris.
At this time, these department stores, Le Printemps and Galeries Lafayette, held one expo a year and sold modern items, clothes decorative porcelain ware, jewelry, but also few antiques.
I don't remember the price she paid, but at this time, Chinese antiques were very affordable!
Both sides are decorated, one with a poem and signatures in red seal.
It is 6.8cm or 2.5/8" high, 3.5cm or 1.3/8" wide.
Coral, oxidised brass lid with cork stopper and bone spoon.
Some brown powder remnants inside!
Now you know this catches my eye Kyra ! It's beautiful. :)
Mike! Another collecting start? Thank youuuuu!
Sean, Melanie, Officialfuel, many thanks for your prompt loves!
Exquisite, kyratango! :)
Very nice! Certainly a treasure.
kyra, I saw something very similar and I was not sure what it was. I am going to see if it is still there. Hope that you are doing well.
It's a wonderful snuff bottle Kyra. I wonder what the poem is?
Kath, thanks for your exquisite comment :-))
Sunnybrook, thank you so much for your kind comment!
Vintagelamp, hi! Hope you're fine too :-)
Thanks for your visit! If you manage to get the one you saw, please post it :-)
Racer, thank you for your wonderful comment! Searching for the poem and signature would be an exhausting job... I' too lazy!
Collective (lazy too!) But warm thanks to all 18 lovers/sniffers :-D
Really pretty! When younger though, I preferred white powder over brown!
Ha, Don you must speak of talcum powder in your baby age ;-D
Thanks for your visit my friend!
I love those insite with one hair handpainted snuff botles. What a patience
Great post and info kyratango, now you make me remember some of those snuff bottle, humm, I guess it's all about CW POST, now I will have to find them, Lol.
Regards
Alan
Marga, thank you for visiting, loving and leaving your kind comment :-)
Alan thank you very much! Impatient to see your snuff bottles :-)
Thanks for posting this. Never seen anything like it. It's very cool looking.
It's so cool you live in Paris. CW should do a big sight swap. I'd love to go there!!
Haha toracat!
That would be great to meet in real :-)
Thank you OGF for your cool and kind comment!
Many thanks to you, all 25 lovers :-D
Thanks Betty for stopping by and hit the love button :-D
Thank you Bonnie for the love :-)
kyratango this is a lovely bottle! If you ever want to sell it let me know! You can email me at cathyshapiro@gmail.com
Hey, this is really nice! Every time I see one now I think, ah, the lid fits! haha That's cuz mine doesn't! Not so sure what to do with mine either, the lid I mean.
I know, they probably aren't referred to as lids, right?
Very nice piece amazing
Thank you Cathy, for your comment and opinion about maker on your post :-)
I don't sell...
Shareurpassion, thanks! The "lid" is a stopper :-))
Master, many thanks for your interest and kind comment!
This bottle is in the style of Zhou Leyuan. You can search auction results re his work at Sotheby’s by typing his name. Values ranging between few thousand USD and over ten thousand USD. There is no official records of Zhou’s birth or death but his works appeared during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
I can’t tell from this bottle if it is Zhou’s work but seeing it was purchased in the 70’s then I guess it wouldn’t be a modern copy for sure.
Best of luck and great collection Kyratango!
Canberraman, would you believe I didn’t see your comment!!!
CW had a long problem with notifications :-((
Thank you so much for your informations!
I just posted it on a FB group and got a traduction of the poem:
The poem
??????? Towering green mountains n white clouds
??????? Sunset, chicken and dog, a few rural houses.
??????? There is no fisherman on the river
??????? Peach flowers fall that shut the door
??? Signature
the signatures does,not make sense, i think not even in the aoxiang zhai period
no i think it is more complicated , this has to go an expert , the addition is unclear , but it is not uncommon not to sign with WU Zi =1888 Ji Chou- 1889or GengYin 1890 , its probably not an renchen otherwise it was different signed 1892, i think its 1891 year , sorry it is total chaos in my head ( epilepsy) , but if i am right it,s a lot of money
i am running xinmao which is the chinese year 1891 , i am not not an expert in this , but i thought i have seen this in the Braga collection or Setzer collection , the point is the owner got rights on it , so i am actually helpless, personnaly i think i am not way off but i am arrogant m,,,,,,,,,,,
best regards waki
much earlier pieces are not so likely because the jimao= 1879 pieces etc are dedicated to xingquang signed different , so now i gonna play poker
best regards Waki
Apostata, thank you so much for your insights, I wouldn't want your brain to explode trying to find more info ;-)
This is great help already, and when I get the occasion to show it to an antique snuff bottles expert, be sure I will update with the result.
Take care!