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AN INSIDE-PAINTED AMBER GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE The use of amber glass for inside-painted bottles in this artist’s oeuvre
Meng Zishou is rare, and like the subject is probably influenced by the works of Zhou
Signed and dated Jiyou year, corresponding to 1909 Leyuan, whose influence over the Beijing School was so pervasive.
Of rounded shape, painted on one side with a butterfly above a For other examples, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang,
grasshopper on a cabbage with a fan-tailed fish alongside, all below Treasury, Vol. 4, Part 2, Inside Painted, pp. 501-505, nos. 631 and
the inscription and the other side with a dragonfly above a praying 632.
mantis on open rock work and bare branches; stopper.
2in (5.0cm) high
$3,500 - 4,500
己酉年（1909） 孟子受 玻璃内畫蟲魚雅石鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Robert C. Eldred, Lot 195, August 27, 2004

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 106

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