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An inside-painted rock crystal snuff bottle A blue and white molded porcelain snuff bottle
Liu Shouben, 1960 1770-1850
Of rounded rectangular form with a cylindrical neck, flat lip, well- The well-potted bottle of tall tapering cylindrical form with a waisted
finished oval foot ring, painted to both sides in subdued colors on neck, very subtly convex lip, circular foot ring, decorated with rows
a beige ground, each depicting a finely detailed cat and blooming of roundels against a ground molded with swastika symbols, each
morning glory vines, one side signed Shouben, followed by one seal of roundel painted in underglaze blue with a stylized lotus flower-head.
the artist painted in red. 3 1/8in (8cm) high
2 1/2in (6.4cm) high $1,000 - 1,500
$1,000 - 1,500
Provenance
Provenance Christie’s, New York, 21 March 2000, lot 8
Robert Hall, October 1987 The Rachelle R. Holden collection
Sotheby’s New York, 26 November 1991, lot 65
Liu Shouben was an early student of Ye Bengqi and his brother, Ye The Fima and Lillian Ginzberg collection (collected 1935-1950)
Xiaofeng, who founded the modern Beijing School in the 1950’s. Liu
continues to this day as the doyen of the Beijing School after Wang Literature
Xisan left for the province of Hebei to set up his own school. PRivers and Mountains Far from the World, Rachelle R. Holden, Hong
Kong 1994, pp. 254-255, no. 96.
劉守本，水晶內畫戲貓圖鼻煙壺
青花瓷胎模製荷花萬字紋鼻煙壺

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