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A RARE INSIDE-PAINTED ‘CAMELS’ GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE This is a wonderful example of Zhang Baotian’s hand. The scene of
Zhang Baotian camels is a fairly rare one, however there is at least one other camel
Signed and dated Jihai year, corresponding to 1899, Beijing scene painted by the artist in a bottle dated to the preceeding year,
Painted on one side with three camels and riders, one dismounted, all 1898 in the Humphrey Hui collection, see Humphrey K.F. Hui, Lai Suk
below the inscription and seal, tian yin, the reverse with a village scene Yee and Peter Y.K. Lam, Inkplay in Microcosm, Inside-painted Chinese
in a mountain landscape; stopper. Snuff Bottles, The Humphrey K.F. Hui Collection, Art Museum, The
2 3/8in (6cm) high Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002, no. 97. The placement of
the camels is almost identical but with a few obvious differences in
$5,000 - 7,000 positioning.

己亥年(1899） 張葆田 玻璃内畫駝群鼻煙壺 北京 The reverse side that depicts a waking village at dawn (note the
cockerel on the thatched roof) was a popular one. See Hugh Moss,
Provenance: Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, Treasury, Vol. 4, Part 1, Hong Kong,
Robert Kleiner, 1994 2000, pp.194-198, no. 506, for a lengthy discussion of the artist.
Sotheby’s, New York, The Collection of Robert and Molly Hsieh, 23 See also Humphrey Hui, Po Ming Kwon and Christopher C.H. Sin
March 2004, lot 195 (eds.), A Congregation of Snuff Bottle Connoisseurs: An Exhibition of
Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, October-
Published: November 1996, no. 288 for another rare Baotian bottle with camels
ICSBS Journal, Autumn, 1995, Front cover from the Lutz and Hedda Franz collection dated 1897.

Exhibited: See also Bonhams, Hong Kong, 23 November 2010, lot 112 for a
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria, landscape bottle dated 1892.
New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 100

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