A SMALL INSIDE-PAINTED SMOKY CRYSTAL BOTTLE
SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, THE YE FAMILY AT THE APRICOT GROVE STUDIO, DATED AUTUMN DAY, GENGWU YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1930
Of slender, rounded oval shape, one side with a gentleman and two ladies, the other with a lady receiving a gift in a garden, simple, shallow, concave foot, some flaws, stopper
Lot Essay
For a miniature bottle of similar type dated to 1927 see Rober W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles, A Miniature Art from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, p. 405, no. 333