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A MINIATURE INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE Meng Zishou was another follower of Zhou Leyuan and numbered
Meng Zishou amongst the Beijing School artists. His dated works span sixteen
Signed, circa 1905-10 years between 1904 and 1919. A number of ‘miniature’ bottles with
Of rounded rectangular shape, finely painted with a continuous scene subsiduary fish subjects are known, see the following lot 447, in this
of long-tailed black and white gold-fish swimming among aquatic sale, for further discussion.
fronds; stopper.
1 1/2in (4.0cm) high For a regular-sized example with a similar fish subject dated to 1909,
see Michael C. Hughes, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Chinese
$4,000 - 5,000 Snuff Bottles, Baltimore, 2009, pp. 266-267, no. 207 and further
discussion of the artists works.
1905-1910 孟子受 玻璃内畫「龍門得意」圖微型鼻煙壺
For another standard-sized crystal example dated 1909, see Christie’s,
Provenance: New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff
Robert Kleiner, London, 6 November, 2013 Bottles: Part VI, 12 September 2018, lot 655. Another also dated
1909, is illustrated by Moss et. al., op. cit., pp. 510-511, no. 635.

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