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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE Exhibited:
Chen Zhongsan International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
Signed and dated bingchen year, corresponding to 1916 November 2013, no. 81
Painted to one main face with two figures in a boat, one with an open
umbrella, taking shelter near a willow tree from a storm in a mountain For another example dated the following year, 1917, see Hugh
lake landscape below the inscription with date, signature and illegible Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
artists seal, the reverse side with two grasshoppers, a praying mantis Bottles,The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 4, Part 2, Inside
and a butterfly amidst cabbage leaves, twigs and rockwork; stopper. Painted, Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 528-529. Like that example, our’s
2 3/8in (6cm) high shows the artist’s preference for pale blue highlights to strengthen the
image, particularly behind the willow tree in a blustery storm, on both
$2,500 - 3,500 bottles.

丙辰年（1916） 陳仲三 玻璃内畫風雨一葉舟鼻煙壺 See Christie’s, London, 15 May 2012, lot 133 for another example with
a continuous scene of birds and foliage.
Provenance:
White Wings Collection
Robert Kleiner, The White Wings Collection, 8 January 1999

Literature:
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles -The White Wings Collection,
Hong Kong, 1997, p. 290 , no. 205

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