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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE The inscription mentions Yuan’s name as well as his other name, Wei
Liu Shouben Ting and his nickname Jung-An; he was a native of Xiangcheng in
Signed and dated renwu year, corresponding to 2002 Henan province; He was born in 1859 and died in 1916; he was the
Of compressed rounded rectangular shape, the main face depicting President of the Republic of China.
Yuan Shikai, the other painted with a lengthy inscription, signature and
date; stopper. For another portrait bottle by Liu dated 1990, see Sotheby’s Hong
2 3/8in (6cm) high Kong, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Part X, 1 June 2015, lot
69 and another historical portrait bottle sold at Bonhams New York, 15
$1,800 - 2,500 September 2014, lot 8038.
壬午年（2002） 劉守本 玻璃内畫袁世凱像鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Commissioned bottle from the artist in June 2002 (through Stanley
S.K. Yang, Hong Kong)

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 93

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