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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE For other signed examples see Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, The Mary and
Li Shouchang George Bloch Collection. Part VI, 27 May 2013, lot 262, dated to
Signed, circa 1900 1892; and another at Christie’s New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron
Of rounded rectangular shape, painted with a rare scene of soldiers Collection, Part IV, 15 March 2017, lot 342 (one of three).
at battle below the ramparts of a walled city, perhaps Beijing, on one
main face below the signature, and with ranks of soldiers in a rocky Little is known of Li Shouchang who appears to have been amongst
landscape to the other; stopper. the earlier followers of Zhou Leyuan. Whilst not a painter of the finest
2 3/4in (7cm) high details, he does display a quirky charm and his images have a folk-art
quality to them. According to the previously noted Sotheby’s catalogue
$1,800 - 2,200 of the Bloch Collection, he has a small repertoire of surviving bottles,
perhaps numbering only seven or eight.
1900年前後 李壽昌 玻璃内畫兵戎交戰鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Max Lonner
Robert C. Eldred, The Max Lonner Collection, 23 August 1989, lot 401

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 44

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