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AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE The subject depicts a scene from the Hung Lou Meng with Pioyu and
Ye Zhongsan his female cousins in the bamboo lodge below willow gathered at a
Signed and possibly dated wuchen year, corresponding to 1928 table and a greeting scene on the other. For further discussion of the
The rounded globular bottle of an earlier date, painted on one main subject, see Virginia Mead, an article entitled ‘Familiar Inspirations’,
face in muted colors with four standing figures at a building entrance Arts of Asia, Jan-Feb, 1982, pp. 96-106, and un-numbered illustration
below the title, the reverse side with five ladies seated at a table on p. 103.
beneath willow and the inscription with date and signature followed by
the seal, yin; stopper.
2 1/4in (5.8cm) high
$3,000 - 4,000
或為戊辰年（1928） 葉仲三 水晶内畫「紅樓夢」人物鼻煙壺
Provenance:
Robert C. Eldred, 24 August 1995
Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 60
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