SIGNED LIU SHOUBEN, CIRCA 1900

細節

An inside-painted glass snuff bottle
Signed Liu Shouben, circa 1900
Of flattened rounded rectangular shape, finely painted to both sides with the 'Hundred Boys' in a garden setting, shown playing soldiers, with drums, reading books and other pursuits, inscribed on both sides, one seal, with stopper
8.3 cm. high

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拍場告示

Please note that the date should read 1990 and not 1900 as stated in the printed catalogue.

拍品專文

Liu Shouben studied with Ye Bengqi and his brother, Ye Xiaofeng, who founded the modern Beijing School in the 1950's and still is today one of the top studio's producing high quality inside painted snuff bottles.
The subject of boys has been a popular deocrative motif in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Traditionally, they represent the wish for abundant offspring, in particular sons, and wealth.