Lot 618
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AN INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
AN INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
AN INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
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AN INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE

ATTRIBUTED TO YE BENQI, 1920-1940

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AN INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
ATTRIBUTED TO YE BENQI, 1920-1940
The bottle is painted with a continuous scene of eight brightly colored birds squabbling amidst branches and on a rocky precipice. One side has an inscription with the cyclical date Renzi (1912) and signature of Ye Zhongsan, followed by a red seal below the neck.
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high, glass stopper
Provenance
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 2000.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2951.
Exhibited
Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

This bottle is part of a small group of inside-painted bottles likely painted by Ye Benqi, to which he signed his father's name. For another stylistically similar bottle signed Ye Zhongsan see Lilla S. Perry, Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Adventures and Studies of a Collector, 1960, pp. 135-37, no. 131.

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