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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE For another example of this artists work, see Hugh Moss, Victor
Chen Zhongsan Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J
Signed and dated xinhai year, corresponding to 1911 & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 730, no. 448, where the authors
Of rounded rectangular shape, a continuous rocky river landscape, note that he began his career copying the works of Zhou Leyuan and
with figures and vessels near a ferry station heading to a walled city in that it was not until 1916 that he discovered a subject which appears
the distance; stopper. to be uniquely his own, a delightful river-side city with mutli-arched
2 3/8in (6cm) high bridges and a succession of houses nestling amidst hills. According to
Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
$3,500 - 4,500 Snuff bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 4, Part 2,
Inside Painted p.531, no. 644, the earliest dated bottle by Chen is
辛亥年（1911） 陳仲三 玻璃内畫山水人物鼻煙壺 1907 and the last dated in the autumn of 1919.

Provenance:
Gerry P. Mack
Christie’s, London, The Gerry P. Mack Collection, 4 October 1999, lot
41

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 84

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