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AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE Wang Xisan used the seal Ji while working at Hengshui under the One
Wang Xisan Bottle Studio banner (a short form for the character meaning Hebei
Signed Yihu Zhai (One Bottle Studio) and dated gengxu year, province).
corresponding to 1970 followed by the seal Ji
painted on one main face with a portrait of Hua Tuo the so-called For a slightly smoky crystal bottle by Wang Xisan with the identical
founder of Chinese medicine and on the reverse with a butterfly subject though a different inscription and dated 1969, see Hugh M.
hovering beside a slender day-lily springing from rockwork, low-relief Moss, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, June, 1970, p.
lion-mask ring handles to the narrow sides; stopper. 87, no. 363.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
See Christie’s, New York, 20-21 March 2014, lot 2443 for another
$6,000 - 8,000 historical portrait of a similar date.
庚戌年（1970）王習三 水晶内畫華佗像鼻煙壺 《一壺齋》款

Provenance:
Alice B. McReynolds
Sotheby’s, New York, The Alice B. McReynolds Collection, Part II, 16
April 1985, lot 176

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 33

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