CHINA, END OF THE 19th CENTURY - Lot 47

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CHINA, END OF THE 19th CENTURY - Lot 47
CHINA, END OF THE 19th CENTURY Small white porcelain snuff bottle with blue underglaze decoration of an old man holding an umbrella, accompanied by two children. With coral-colored stopper. Total height: 8.5 cm Provenance Private collection of Monsieur Auguste Gérard (1852-1922), French ambassador to China (1893-1897) and Japan (1907-1913). Then by descent to the present owner. Possibly mentioned in a lot of "2 small snuff bottles" in the seventh line (p.3) of the inventory of objects entrusted by Monsieur Auguste Gérard, French ambassador to Tokyo, to M. Paul du Toict, Bould. du Régent 25 in Brussels in 1906. Present in the family inventory made in November 1976 under number 50 page 7 "Tabatière en porcelaine Chine bleu". An anonymized copy of the pages concerning this lot in the two inventories can be delivered to the buyer. Note Viscount Paul du Toict (1847-1909) was a member of the administrative committee of the Société Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, which organized exhibitions. He was also former president of the Belgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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