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AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED YISI YEAR (1905)
The bottle is inside painted with three equestrian hunters in a continuous winter landscape,
one archer following a stag with an arrow in its rump, another brandishing a forked spear
below an inscription which may be read, “painted in the sixth month of the yisi year (1905) by
Ye Zhongsan,” followed by a red seal. A natural faw in the stone on one side may represent a
cave in a large rock.
2æ in. (7 cm.) high, glass stopper
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

The SB Collection, no. 152.
Robert Hall, London, 2011.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 5271.

LITERATURE

R. Hall, The SB Collection, Chinese Snuf Bottles IV, London, 2011, pp. 50-1, no. 152.
This is a unique subject for Ye Zhongsan, which he did not seem to have repeated many
times, unlike most of his other subjects.
乙巳年(1905) 葉仲三作水晶内畫狩獵圖鼻煙壺

92 THE RUTH AND CARL BARRON COLLECTION OF FINE CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLES: PART IV