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AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
Ye Zhongsan
Signed and dated yisi year, corresponding to 1905
Of large rounded rectangular shape, painted with a continuous
coastal or lakeside mountain landscape scene with a pavilion in the
foreground, beneath pine trees and the inscription, date, signature and
seal, yin, the reverse with a scholar and attendant carrying a qin on a
riverside path with a waterfall and mountains, superb lion-mask fixed-
ring handles delicately carved to the narrow sides; stopper.
2 1/2in (6.3cm) high

$5,000 - 7,000
乙巳年（1905） 水晶内畫山水高士童子鼻煙壺 《葉仲三》款

Provenance:
Robert Kleiner, 4 March 2002

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 90

This bottle shows Ye Zhongsan at his height of power of artistic output.
Whilst clearly borrowing from the style of Zhou Leyuan, Ye makes this
bottle subject his own. For a lengthy discussion of this period in his
output, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, Treasury,
Vol. 4, Part 1, Inside Painted, Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 254-255, no.
524, as it relates to a another landscape bottle dated 1903.

For another crystal bottle see Bonhams, Hong Kong, 27 May 2012,
The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Part V, lot 157, depicting a
very similarly depicted landscape scene to one side (and a portrait on
the other).

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