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SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED BINGSHEN (1896)
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                                            AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED BINGSHEN (1896)
The bottle is decorated with Zhong Kui riding on the back of a donkey and being followed by a demon-attendant. The reverse is decorated with a boy on a buffalo beneath willows and with an inscription incorporating a cyclical date, bingshen (1896), and a signature, Ye Zhongsan.
2 ½ in. (6.4 cm.), glass stopper
                                        
                                    SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED BINGSHEN (1896)
The bottle is decorated with Zhong Kui riding on the back of a donkey and being followed by a demon-attendant. The reverse is decorated with a boy on a buffalo beneath willows and with an inscription incorporating a cyclical date, bingshen (1896), and a signature, Ye Zhongsan.
2 ½ in. (6.4 cm.), glass stopper
Provenance
                                        
                                            Susan B. Hacker.
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000.
                                    Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000.
Literature
                                        
                                            I.C.S.B.S., Journal, Autumn, 1982, p. 18.
                                        
                                    Exhibited
                                        
                                            Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
                                        
                                    Special notice
                                        
                                            This lot is offered without reserve.