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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE According to Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury
Chen Zhongsan of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol.
Signed and dated wuwu year, corresponding to 1918 4, Part 1, Inside Painted, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 531, only forty-two
Painted with Huang Chengyan or Meng Haoren riding a donkey dated and fifteen un-dated bottles are recorded by this artist and only
approaching a bridge in a winter river landscape, followed by his four are known from 1918. His working period as part of the Beijing
trusted assistant clutching a freshly picked prunus blossom spray and School appears to have been between 1907 and 1921. For another
with a gourd vessel strapped to his back, the reverse painted with example with extremely similar subject-matter to each side but dated
cricket among flowering leafy begonia below the signature, date and to 1909, see Bonhams, New York, 9 September 2019, lot 105, a
seal; stopper. bottle formerly in the Bob C. Stevens Collection and then the Mei Ling
2 3/8in (6cm) high Collection.

$3,500 - 5,500 For further discussion of the subject painted on one side of this bottle
from the novel Sanguo yanyi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms),
戊午年（1918） 陳仲三 玻璃内畫人物及蟋蟀花卉圖鼻煙壺 see Ka Bo Tsang, ‘Who is the Rider on the Donkey? Some New
Observations,’ ICSBS Journal, Summer 1994, pp. 5-10. Generally the
Provenance: rider is identified as Haung Chengyan when his assitant carries a gourd
Robert C. Eldred, 25 August 1994, lot 122 vessel and as Meng Haoren, when the assistant carries a prunus
spray. However, the determination on identification, when the assistant
Exhibited: carries both attributes, has yet to be satisfactorily answered.
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 57

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