A VERY FINE ENAMELLED WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

WANG XISAN, ARTS AND CRAFTS WORKSHOP, NORTH-WESTERN SUBURBS OF BEIJING, 1964-1966

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A VERY FINE ENAMELLED WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
WANG XISAN, ARTS AND CRAFTS WORKSHOP, NORTH-WESTERN SUBURBS OF BEIJING, 1964-1966
Of meiping form, finely painted with a continuous scene of two birds in a lush garden setting, one bird perched in the branches of a blossoming pear tree, the other perched on a pierced rock amidst pink and blue asters, all between a decorative floral band around the neck and a band of formalized lingzhi heads encircling the foot, the foot inscribed in blue enamel with an apocryphal Qianlong four-character mark, stopper
2 3/8 in. (6.18 cm.) high

Provenance

Lucille Parker
Sotheby's New York, 17 March 1977, lot 16
Hugh M. Moss Ltd.

Literature

JICSBS, Autumn 1985, p. 128, figs. 359a and b
100 Selected Chinese Snuff Bottles from the J & J Collection, no. 39
JICSBS, Autumn 1989, front cover
Moss et. al., The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J&J Collection, vol. 1, no. 206

Exhibited

Christie's London, October 1987
Christie's New York, 1993
Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1996-1997
Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997
Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002
Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
National Museum of History, Taipei, 2002
International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 2003
Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2003

Lot Essay

Wang Xisan, the famous modern painter of inside-painted snuff bottles, learned the art of enameling glass from his teacher, Ye Bengqi. Wang was unquestionably the finest enameler since the zenith of the Beijing Palace workshops under the Qianlong Emperor. Compare another enameled white glass bottle by Wang Xisan from the Kaynes-Klitz Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 October 1990, lot 58, and later illustrated in Sotheby's Hong Kong - Twenty Years, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 283, no. 478.

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