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SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED XINCHOU (1901)
Details
AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED XINCHOU (1901)
One side is decorated with the knight 'Curly Whiskers' with his donkey and with Li Jing and the courtesan Hongfu nu in a winter landscape, below the artist's inscription and date. The reverse is painted with three scholars seated at a stone table having tea beneath a pine tree.
2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED XINCHOU (1901)
One side is decorated with the knight 'Curly Whiskers' with his donkey and with Li Jing and the courtesan Hongfu nu in a winter landscape, below the artist's inscription and date. The reverse is painted with three scholars seated at a stone table having tea beneath a pine tree.
2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high, glass stopper
Provenance
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1999.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2777.
Sotheby's New York, 9 June 1981, lot 212.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2777.
Sotheby's New York, 9 June 1981, lot 212.
Literature
JICSBS, Autumn 1982, p.30, no.64.
Exhibited
Boston, International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, The Barron Collection, 23-26 September 2008.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
Brought to you by
Andrew Lick