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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED XINCHOU (1901)
One side is decorated with the knight ‘Curly Whiskers’ with his donkey and with Li Jing
and the courtesan Hongfu nu in a winter landscape, below the artist’s inscription and date.
The reverse is painted with three scholars seated at a stone table having tea beneath
a pine tree.
2º in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
$5,000-7,000
PROVENANCE
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1999.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2777.
Sotheby’s New York, 9 June 1981, lot 212.
EXHIBITED
Boston, International Chinese Snuf Bottle Society Convention,
The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
LITERATURE
JICSBS, Autumn 1982, p.30, no.64.
辛丑年(1901) 葉仲三作玻璃內畫人物故事圖鼻煙壺

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