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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS ‘WANG ZHAOJUN’ SNUFF BOTTLE 2000, pp.512-513, no.636, which was later sold at Sotheby’s Hong
Signed Meng Zishou, dated to the Summer of the Jiyou year Kong, 26 May 2014, lot 1142. According to the authors ‘from 1910
corresponding to 1909 and of the period onwards Meng painted a series of figural subjects illustrating scenes
Painted with two warriors on horseback jousting with each other in a from popular books’, which therefore makes the present bottle a rare
mountainous landscape, with inscription and signature of the artist, the early example of Meng’s work; see ibid., p.512.
reverse with Wang Zhaojun on horseback led by a groom and with a
banner lady in attendance, stopper. Meng Zishou, who also went by the name Meng Zhaoxun, is another
6.8cm (2 5/8in) high. (2). of the artists of the Beijing School of Zhou Leyuan. As a rule, Beijing
school artists were influenced by Zhou Leyuan in their early years and
£1,500 - 2,000 then, later, might borrow from any of the other popular artists who
CNY13,000 - 18,000 were painting. Meng is no exception and he soon settled down to the
influences of the Zhou Leyuan School. During his career, the influence
of Ma Shaoxuan and Ye Zhongsan become obvious from 1905
1909年 孟子受作玻璃內畫人物圖鼻煙壺 onwards, but in his first year he seems to have been the only artist to
hark back to the literati beginnings of the art for his inspiration.
Provenance:
Parry Collection, London, and thence by descent 壺呈扁瓶形，直口，溜肩斂腹。一面內畫昭君出塞，另一面內畫李陵
大戰番將，並署「己酉夏日寫於京師習古山房孟子受作」款。
來源：
倫敦Parry家族收藏，並由後人保存迄今 參考一例孟子受作內畫三國人物圖鼻煙壺，見於H.Moss、V.Graham、
與K.B.Tsang著，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and
The present lot depicts Wang Zhaojun, one of the ‘four beauties George Bloch Collection, Inside Painted》，卷四，香港，2000年，頁
of ancient China’, being escorted to the frontier to marry Chanyu 512-513，編號636，後於2014年5月26日售於香港蘇富比，拍品編號
Huhanye of the Xiongnu empire in order to establish friendly relations 1142。依據上書第512頁，1910年起，孟子受創作了一系列以通俗故
with the Han dynasty. According to legend, along the way, the horse 事人物為題材的內畫鼻煙壺，而本例無疑是孟氏存世較少的早期精品
neighed, making Zhaojun extremely sad and unable to control her 之一。
emotions at being sent to marry a barbarian.
孟子受，又名孟昭勳，京派鼻煙壺內畫大師。京派畫師早期往往受週
See a related Meng Zishou bottle illustrating a scene from ‘The 樂元繪畫風格影響，後逐漸博取眾家之長，孟氏亦不例外；其1905年
Romance of the Three Kingdoms’, illustrated by H.Moss, V.Graham 後的作品逐漸體現出馬少宣、葉仲三等藝術風格，也是為數不多的回
and K.B.Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and 溯到文人藝術中尋求靈感的藝術家。
George Bloch Collection, Inside Painted vol.4, part II, Hong Kong,

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