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拍品專文
Besides his work in enamels on glass (see lot 224 in this catalogue) Wang Xisan was also a premiment artist of inside-painted snuff bottles. Born in 1938, Wang Xisan (Wang Ruicheng) was the star pupil of Ye Bengqi and Ye Xiaofeng, who were the sons of Ye Zhongsan, who revitalized the Beijing school of painting in the late 1950s. Wang also studied the paintings at the Palace Museum, and his subjects tend to be more varied than those of his teachers.
Today, Wang’s earliest works from 1958 to the early 1960s are now amongst the rarest. Wang is known to have never repeated a composition. The present subject, with a qilin on one side and a water buffalo on the reverse, appears to be unique amongst his known works.
For a discussion of the artist see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 6, Part 1, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 273-275.
Today, Wang’s earliest works from 1958 to the early 1960s are now amongst the rarest. Wang is known to have never repeated a composition. The present subject, with a qilin on one side and a water buffalo on the reverse, appears to be unique amongst his known works.
For a discussion of the artist see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 6, Part 1, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 273-275.