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AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
Wang Xisan
Signed and dated wuchen year, corresponding to 1968
Of rectangular shape with raised panels, painted on one side with
a figure, probably Meng Haoren, riding through a winter landscape
followed by his attendant who may be clutching a prunus spray, but
with the pink blossoms of a prunus nearby, the reverse with a figure
outside a thatched house amidst trees, below a title, Xue Jing (Snowy
View); stopper.
2 1/8in (5.5cm) high
$7,000 - 9,000

戊辰年(1968) 王習三 水晶内畫雪景人物鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., 27 April 1983

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 22

For further discussion of the subject of Meng Haoran from the novel
Sanguo yanyi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), see Ka Bo Tsang,
‘Who is the Rider on the Donkey? Some New Observations,’ ICSBS
Journal, Summer 1994, pp. 8-10.

For another quartz bottle of identical shape and crystalline structure
by Wang Xisan painted with a subject of cats and cyclically dated to
1972, see Bonhams, New York, Chinese Snuff Bottles from American
Collections, 13 November 2017, 8015.

A larger example with the same subject on one side is illustrated on
the website www.thecranecollection.com, no.904

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