Five Chinese Porcelain and Stoneware Snuff Bottles
瓷鼻烟壺五支

-The first, 20th century, porcelain of cylindrical form with a waisted neck, gilt flat lip and flat base surrounded by a protruding circular footrim, the milk-white body well-painted in famille-rose colors to depict a continuous scene of boys in an outdoor setting, the base with an apocryphal four-character Qianlong nian zhi inscription in iron-red seal script.
-The second modern, of ovoid form, decorated with Zhongkui and bats, an inscription and two seals verso, underside with apocryphal Qianlong mark
-The third, circa 1820-1850. Enamelled Yixing stoneware of tapering ovoid form, with a cylindrical neck and flat lip, one side with a panel depicting a pavilion beneath a tree-covered peak, the reverse depicting a sage contemplating a landscape, all reserved on a ground imitating turquoise matrix or shagreen.
-The fourth, 19th/20th century. Porcelain of bulging meiping form, with an everted lipped neck, wide mouth and flat recessed base, the milk-white body painted in underglaze cobalt blue to depict a continuous scene of stylized lotus scrolls, the neck encircled with lingzhi motifs above a double ring, the base with a four-character Yongzheng nian zhi mark in regular script.
-The fifth, Mid-19th to 20th century. Porcelain small “pot” of squat form, with an everted lipped neck, very wide mouth and flat foot surrounded by a protruding circular footrim, the milk-white body painted in underglaze cobalt blue to depict the animals of the zodiac, the shoulders with bats, a blue ring beneath the lip and above the base, the base with a four-character Daoguang nian zhi mark in seal script, the interior also glazed.

Tallest height with stopper 3 in., 7.6 cm.

Property from the Estate of Dr. Thomas Klein, sold to benefit Jefferson Hospital

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

-The first: Walnut Tree Auction, Walnut, CA, March 7, 2024, lot 53

Fukosai Hirota (1897–1973) Collection

Yasuzeamon Matsunaga (1875–1971) Collection

-The third: Sotheby’s London, April 20ᵗʰ, 1982, lot 105

-The fourth acquired December 13, 2023

-The fifth: Oakridge Auction Gallery, Auburn, VA, January 13, 2024, lot 550

Property from the Estate of Dr. Thomas A. Klein, MD. Sold to benefit the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Thomas Klein醫生遺產，拍賣所得歸Jefferson醫院。

湯姆·克萊因醫生收藏鼻烟壺逾四十年。他畢業於哈佛大學與羅徹斯特大學，曾於美國陸軍擔任婦產科醫師並出任高階領導職務。其後於傑佛遜醫院服務三十年，2023年以婦產科副主任身分榮退，期間培養了五百餘名住院醫師與無數醫學生。他的學術與臨床精神延續於以其名設立的「Thomas A. Klein 講席教授」，本場拍賣所得亦歸於傑佛遜醫院。

Tom Klein’s life was shaped by two enduring passions: medicine and the collecting of snuff bottles. While these worlds rarely intersected, both were marked by the same qualities—quiet dedication, discernment, and grace.

Tom was unfailingly modest–when the I.C.S.B.S. held its convention in Philadelphia, he entrusted me to select bottles from his collection for the exhibition “Embers of the East,” a task made challenging by the number of exceptional bottles. His passion for collecting was thoughtful rather than acquisitive, grounded in appreciation rather than display. These were his companions—objects he handled, studied, and loved for over 40 years.

Professionally, Tom enjoyed an equally distinguished career. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Rochester, he served as an obstetrician-gynecologist in the U.S. Army in senior leadership roles. He spent thirty years at Jefferson Hospital, retiring in 2023 as Vice Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, having trained more than five hundred residents and countless medical students. His legacy continues through the Thomas A. Klein, MD Professorship in Quality and Safety in Women’s Health.

To those who knew him as a collector, these accomplishments mirrored the man I admired: principled, generous, and exacting without pretension. Over the 35 years I had the privilege to know him, he was a gentleman in the most absolute sense of the word. Though he is deeply missed, his presence endures in the objects he cherished and in our shared love of snuff bottles.

Clare Chu

The first with rubbing to gilding; the second with rubbing to gilding, small hairline to foot ring; the third with surface scratches and abrasions; the fourth with lip frits, chips to button; three lacking spoons; no repairs or restorations seen under UV light.

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Five Chinese Porcelain and Stoneware Snuff Bottles
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