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AN INSIDE-PAINTED SMOKY CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE For further discussion of the subject, Huang Chengyang, from the
Ye Zhongsan novel Sanguo yanyi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), see Ka Bo
Signed and dated jiazi year, corresponding to 1924, Beijing Tsang, ‘Who is the Rider on the Donkey? Some New Observations,’
Painted on one side with Huang Chengyan riding through a winter ICSBS Journal, Summer 1994, pp. 5-7. See also another Ye Zhonsan
landscape followed by an attendant carrying a gourd, the other side bottle of the same subject dated to 1913 in this collection, lot 457.
with a greeting at a gateway; stopper.
2 1/8in (5.5cm) high Another rock-crystal example by Ye Zhongsan, formerly in the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art with identical scenes and dated to the
$3,000 - 5,000 following year 1925 is illustrated by Bob C. Stevens, The Collector’s
Book of Snuff Bottles New York and Tokyo, 1976, pp. 244-245,
甲子年（1924） 葉仲三 煙晶内畫「黃承彥踏雪寒江」圖鼻煙壺 北京 no. 902. For a smoky quartz bottle depicting the same subject, see
Christie’s, New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Part V, 13
Provenance: September 2017, lot 203.
Sotheby’s, London, A Private Collection, 5 December 1983

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 24

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