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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE For another Chen Zhongsan bottle depicting a winter village scene,
Chen Zhongsan see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of
Signed and dated jiyou year, corresponding to 1909, Beijing Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 4,
Of rounded rectangular shape, painted on one side with Huang Part 2, Inside Painted, Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 530-531, no. 644.
Chengyan or Meng Haoren riding a donkey across a snow swept
bridge, followed by an assistant carrying a double gourd and a branch Chen Zhongsan was a relative late-comer in the Beijing School whose
of prunus blossom over his back, the reverse with fighting crickets on dated bottles span a little over a decade between 1907 and 1919,
a mossy bank above a cabbage cluster, a butterfly and a dragonfly making this an early bottle in his oeuvre.
above along with the signature, date and illegible seal of the artist;
stopper. See Bonhams, New York, 9 September 2019, lot 105 for a
2 3/8in (6cm) high comparable bottle also dated 1909 and painted with similar subjects
on each main face. See also Christie’s New York, The Ruth and Carl
$3,000 - 4,000 Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part VI, 12 September
2018, lot 638 for a glass bottle with a similar scene of insects and
己酉年（1909）陳仲三 玻璃内畫「黃承彥踏雪寒江」及「國有萬 foliage on both main faces but dated to nine years later.
財」圖鼻煙壺 北京
For further discussion of the subject painted on one side of this bottle
Provenance: from the novel Sanguo yanyi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms),
Sotheby’s, New York, 27 June 1986, lot 245 see Ka Bo Tsang, ‘Who is the Rider on the Donkey? Some New
Observations,’ ICSBS Journal, Summer 1994, pp. 5-10. Generally the
Exhibited: rider is identified as Haung Chengyan when his assitant carries a gourd
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9 vessel and as Meng Haoren, when the assistant carries a prunus
November 2013, no. 36 spray. However, the determination on identification, when the assistant
carries both attributes, has yet to be satisfactorily answered.

See also another Ye bottle dated to 1913 in this collection, lot 457.

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