SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN AND DATED XIN YOU YEAR CORRESPONDING TO 1921

The scenes are taken from th story Liao Zhai (The Chat House).

For another bottle in clear crystal depicting the same scene to each side and dated 1916, but bearing the apochryphal signature of Ma Shaoxuan, see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles II, Hong Kong, 1989, Catalogue, p. 42, no. 28 and previously published in JICSBS, Spring, 1984, in an article by Hugh Moss, 'The Apricot Studio, Part II', no. 151