AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE

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AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
CIRCA 1891-1900, YE ZHONGSAN, THE APRICOT GROVE STUDIO, BEIJING


Delicately painted to the interior with a continuous landscape sece with scholars at ease, inscribed 'written by Zhou Leyuan at the Studio of Thirty-six documents in the capital in the ninth month of 1891' with seal Yuan Yin, stopper

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During Ye Zhongsan's early years, when Zhou was the preeminent painter in Beijing, Ye did a series of superb copies of the master's works which come closer than any of the other many copies to being totally convincing. This is one of the finest, where the true hand of the painter is given away only by Ye's inability to match Zhou's calligraphic grace and personality.

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