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SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED BINGSHEN (1896)
Details
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.