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« on: February 18, 2017, 08:10:32 am »

Hello again, I would like to hear your thoughts on this cloisonne bottle, as usual, I am not sure if this could be an older one? I have looked at the pieces in the Marakovic collection, and I think it might be late Qing? However I am not experienced enough to date it...Thank you very much in advance,
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« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2017, 10:31:36 am »

Thanks to share it!

I'm completly unexpert, but In my eyes is not old.
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« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2017, 01:31:32 am »

Thank you albert!
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« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2017, 03:49:48 pm »

Beautiful bottle, and I tend to agree with Albert..
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« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2017, 06:54:15 pm »

Hmm . I am not so sure. It seeems to have some age. Nice bottle in any case.
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« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2017, 11:55:30 pm »

Hi Mat,

I agree that it is an attractive looking bottle, and appears to have some convincing wear to it. But the green bothers me. It is not a colour I remember seeing on older cloisonné examples. Of course, it's hard to tell from photos - it could just be the lighting exaggerating the hues.

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« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2017, 08:35:40 am »

Thank you all for your comments! Tom, you are right, the colours are much brighter in the photo than they are in reality. I have seen that green on old cloisonne, but as background it is indeed unusual. The age signs look indeed ok, so I do not think it is new...
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« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2017, 04:22:27 am »

I searched a bit for comparable bottles and found some examples that are at least in design and shape quite similar, with main difference that the background is left open on these. They are all dated to the Qing dynasty, but I have no idea if that is correct...

http://www.fei123.com/290000/286613.shtml

http://blog.qq.com/qzone/626800641/1389605174.htm

http://auction.artron.net/paimai-art5040935916/

Another one is in the catalog of Jill discussed in another thread on this forum, it is Nr. 74.

Although there are differences in colour and technique, I think my bottle is clearly related to this group... What do you think, is mine a later version, or just another version made at the same period when the other bottles were made? And are they really Qing? Thank you again for your thoughts!
Matthias

PS. I did not have the time to make new pictures, but I tried to edit one so that the colours of my bottle are a bit closer to reality...


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« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2017, 04:38:54 am »

The examples you shared are a bit different in that they are plique-a-jour technique.. So not sure they are good comparisons.. I am not so sure a couple of those are even Qing.. So I would exclude yours from that group. 
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« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2017, 05:34:09 am »

It looks to have some age, as Pat said. I am torn between ca.1870-1930 and ca.1950-1975 (see below).
But there were lots of fine (too finely done for Qing Dynasty, due to technological limitations in the 18th & 19th C.), examples made in the 1950s/1960s/early 1970s.
This looks uncomplicated enough to be a genuine late 19th C. example.
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« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2017, 05:44:54 am »

Thank you George and Joey ! Yes, I am aware of the 1960s -70s pieces, I have one myself, very well made, with much detail, and clearly different in style.
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« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2017, 08:44:43 am »

George, you are right that the other bottles are different in technique, but shape and scroll decoration are similar. I would not call them plique-à-jour, which refers to cloisonne without base, I think. Here  the spaces between the scrolls were just left free.
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« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2017, 09:45:18 am »

George, you are right that the other bottles are different in technique, but shape and scroll decoration are similar. I would not call them plique-à-jour, which refers to cloisonne without base, I think. Here  the spaces between the scrolls were just left free.
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My mistake.. I used the wrong description.. Should have said champlevé..
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« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2017, 04:47:40 pm »

Dear George,
 
     Sorry, but I have to correct you. Again, you used the wrong description. This IS cloisonne, but, as correctly described by Mat, the background was not filled in.
Champleve is where a very thick walled metal body has  a design literally gouged out of the metal bottle wall, and then the
enameling is filled in.  In 47 years of collecting Chinese snuff bottles, I've seen possibly 6 or 7; by comparison, I've seen
hundreds of genuine cloisonne bottles.
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George, you are right that the other bottles are different in technique, but shape and scroll decoration are similar. I would not call them plique-à-jour, which refers to cloisonne without base, I think. Here  the spaces between the scrolls were just left free.
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My mistake.. I used the wrong description.. Should have said champlevé..
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« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2017, 06:48:31 pm »

Dear George,
 
     Sorry, but I have to correct you. Again, you used the wrong description.

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« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2017, 11:05:07 pm »

It's a commonly made mistake, even among "experts". But Joey is correct. Champlevé is a different technique, and rarely found on snuff bottles.
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« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2017, 06:14:52 pm »

I never found one for my collection, between 1970 and 1992.  Cry
The ones I saw were in major private (J & J, Bloch, Kardos, Y.F. Yang) or museum (V & A, Chester Beatty) collections.
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