A Blue and White Porcelain Snuff Bottle

19TH CENTURY

of cylindrical form, depicted the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove to the body and a ruyi-head band to the mouth rim, with aventurine glass stopper.

Height 3 1/4 in., 8 cm.

Property from a Private California Collection

Former Collection of Clare Lawrence, prior to 1998

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.