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AN INSIDE-PAINTED ‘SMOKEY’ QUARTZ SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, BEIJING, DATED RENSHEN (1932)
The bottle is brightly painted with the twelve animals of the zodiac and an inscription
incorporating a cyclical date, renshen (1932), and a signature, Ye Zhongsan.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, sapphire stopper
$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE

Thomas C. Van Nuys, San Francisco
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 1663.

Although this bottle is signed Ye Zhongsan, it was most likely painted by his son Ye
Xiaofeng. It is known that Ye Zhongsan had his sons working with him. This subject
appears to be a specialty of one artist and continued after the eldest son died, and since
it is not in the style of Ye Bingqi it was most likely painted by Ye Xiaofeng.
壬申年（1932） 葉仲三款 或為葉曉峰作煙晶内畫十二生肖圖鼻煙壺

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