Message #10250

[Fiveroosters aka clayandbrush]

Dear all,
Finally I found what I have not been able to show you by pictures, nor to describe properly. With this, I also found the confirmation that my bottle is the real thing. Here below I am posting a picture which I took from Christie’s past auctions pages.  The black line that I added is showing the bottom of the carved areas, from where I took the brittles. It is exactly the same on my bottle. The blue lines are showing the gaps between the bottom and the walls of the high relief parts. Exactly the same I can see on my bottle and could not describe. An image sometimes is worth more than hundred words. That bottle is described as probably Imperial, 1780-1880.
Dear Joey, it seems that Christies don’t has the same opinion of yours. Here is the link to another bottle, bearing the Qianlong mark, and dated by them as 1780-1820. I am not saying that you are wrong, and you have well explained why do you think so; actually I have instead seen that sometimes these big auction houses are wrong.
Kind regards
Giovanni

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/a-well-carved-cinnabar-lacquer-snuff-bottle-qianlong-4566334-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4566334&sid=12f843cd-3621-4138-b572-6ac9298fe14c