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8095
AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Bi Rongjiu (1874-1925)
One side painted with a scene of ‘The Seven Sages of the Bamboo
Grove’ gathered round a table where two of the sages are playing a
game of chess, the other painted with landscape and inscribed fang
Changbai Shanren biyi (painted in the style of Changbai Shanren) and
signed Rongjiu, with one seal.
2 3/4in (7cm) high

US$2,000 - 3,000
畢榮九（1874-1925年）作 玻璃內畫竹林七賢圖鼻煙壺 《榮九作》款

Provenance
Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, 29 September 1977

This technique of figure painting, with simple outlines filled-in with
color, is typical of Bi Rongjiu’s style. The landscape on the reverse is
executed in the manner of an earlier landscape master. An example of
Bi’s work with a group of figures painted in a similar style is illustrated
in Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese
Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol. 4, part 2, 8095 (two views)
Hong Kong, 2000, no. 655. An example of Bi’s own style of landscape
painting is illustrated in Hugh Moss, et. al., The Art of the Chinese
Snuff Bottle: The J & J Collection, vol. 2, New York, 1993, no. 451.

8096
A FAMILLE-ROSE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE
Shendetang mark
Of flattened ovoid form, with an unglazed foot rim surrounding a
shallowly recessed foot, both sides with a landscape in overglaze
enamels, fixed ring mask handles to the sides, the rings with gilt, with
an iron red mark in seal script to the foot.
2 1/4in (5.7cm) high

US$1,000 - 1,500

粉彩山水圖鼻煙壺 《慎德堂》款

8097
FOUR SNUFF DISHES
Qing dynasty
The first of porcelain, painted in famille-rose enamels with a katydid
on a Chinese cabbage flanked by a radish and chrysanthemum, all
enclosed within a blue enamel ruyi and key fret border, the base with
a six-character Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue; the second a 8096
blue and white porcelain dish painted with a scholar’s mountain retreat,
the base painted with stalks of bamboo; the third of spinach jade, the
interior carved in relief with a sprig of lingzhi; the fourth of white jadeite
with green inclusions.
2 1/8in (5.5cm)wide, the largest

US$1,000 - 1,500
清 煙碟四件

Provenance
The famille-rose dish:
Bob Steven’s Collection, illustrated in Bob Stevens, The Collector’s
Book of Snuff Bottles, New York, 1976, no. 56
Eldred’s, East Dennis, MA, 25 August 1982, lot 115

The blue and white porcelain dish:
Collection of Chingwah Lee
Eldred’s, East Dennis, MA, 25 August 1982, lot 2

The spinach jade dish:
Eldred’s, East Dennis, MA, 25 August 1982, lot 49 8097
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