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AN INSIDE-PAINTED SMOKEY QUARTZ SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED TO THE AUTUMN OF RENYIN (1902)
The bottle is decorated with a continuous winter scene, depicting a scholar followed by
his attendant carrying a large double-gourd wine container on one side, and a Manchu
equestrian hunter shooting an arrow at a fying goose on the other. The bottle bears an
inscription incorporating a cyclical date, renyin (1902), and a signature, Ye Zhongsan.
2¬ in (6.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s, London, 3 February 1981, lot 146.
The Guo’an Collection of Fine Chinese Snuf Bottles; Sotheby’s, Hong Kong,
30 October 2000, lot 684.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong, 2002.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 3556.
EXHIBITED
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection,
23-26 September 2008.
壬寅年（1902） 葉仲三作煙晶内畫尋梅圖鼻煙壺
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