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AN UNUSUAL INSIDE-PAINTED HAIR CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE With no signature, we can only guess at the hand of the artist.
Attributed to Meng Zishou However a comparison with this bottle and two others in the collection,
1770-1880 lots 446 and 449, certainly suggest that we might attribute the bottle
Of high-shouldered rounded rectangular shape, upright rectangular to Meng Zishou. The subject matter was one re-visited many times
form, painted with a continuous scene of various fish swimming amid by the artist, who incidentally also liked a wide range of bottle media.
water plants further enhanced by the dark needles lightly suffused The use of a rutile needle backdrop to suggest fronds within the
throughout the stone; stopper. underwater scene, is a clever artistic ploy, that perhaps an artist of
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high Meng’s maturity might attempt.
$3,000 - 4,000
1770-1880 傳孟子受 髪晶内畫魚藻紋鼻煙壺
Provenance:
Sotheby’s, New York, 15 March 1984, lot 320
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., 8 November 1997
Bonhams, New York, 3 March 2017, lot 1019
Michael C. Hughes LLC, 19 September 2017
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