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AN INSIDE-PAINTED SMOKY CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE Compare with another amber glass example dated to 1912, the year
Ye Zhongsan prior to ours, illustrated by Hugh Moss; Chinese Snuff Bottles from the
Signed and dated guizhou year, corresponding to 1913 Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter K.C.M.G., pp. 152-
Of rounded rectangular shape and painted on one main face with 153, no M.11.
Huang Chengyan riding a donkey followed by an assistant carrying a
large gourd vessel over his shoulder, below a lengthy poetic inscription Another rock-crystal example by Ye Zhongsan formerly in the Los
with the date, signature and seal yin in negative seal script, the reverse Angeles County Museum of Art is illustrated by Bob C. Stevens, The
side painted with scene of Liu Bei arriving at Zhuge Liang’s home Collector’s Book of Snuff Bottles New York and Tokyo, 1976, pp. 244-
during a snowstorm; stopper. 245, no. 902, is painted with the same two scenes and the identical
2 1/2in (6.2cm) high poetic inscription though dated to 1925 and more globular in profile.

$5,000 - 7,000 The poem comes from the novel Sanguo yanyi (Romance of the Three
Kingdoms). For further discussion of this subject, see Ka Bo Tsang,
癸酉年（1913） 葉仲三 煙晶内畫三國人物鼻煙壺 ‘Who is the Rider on the Donkey? Some New Observations,’ ICSBS
Journal, Summer 1994, pp.4-16.
Provenance:
Sotheby’s, Billinghurst, 1 December 1992, lot 1871

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 52

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