Fine Asian Art - 20th May 2025

Lot 16

λ THREE CHINESE INTERIOR-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES

Estimate £500 - £800 | Hammer £3528

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Description

λ THREE CHINESE INTERIOR-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
LATE QING DYNASTY

One dated the wuxu year (1898), decorated with grasshoppers and a fisherman climbing a tree in an attempt to catch a catfish; another dated the xinchou year (1901), depicting six horses beneath willow trees; and the third dated the jiawu year (1894), showing figures in a watery landscape, each signed Ye Zhongsan, 6cm max. (3)

WITHOUT RESERVE
本拍品不設底價。

Provenance: from an English private collection, acquired in the 1950s and 1960s.

清晚期 葉仲三作玻璃內畫鼻煙壺 一組三件
來源：英國私人收藏，購於1950至1960年代。



Ye Zhongsan (1875–1945) is regarded as one of the top four artists of the Beijing School of Snuff Bottle Painting. His students, Wang Xisan and Liu Shouben, as well as his granddaughter, Ye Shuying, are also renowned artists in snuff bottle painting.