Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

λ THREE CHINESE INTERIOR-PAINTED GLASS AND ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLES
19TH AND 20TH CENTURY

Each signed Ye Zhongsan, 6.6cm max. (3)

WITHOUT RESERVE
本拍品不設底價。

With copies of two 1962 and 1963 invoices for The Little Shop.

One in glass decorated with a cricket and precious objects, dated the jiawu year (1894); the second in glass painted with fish swimming among aquatic plants, dated the dingsi year (1917); the other in rock crystal depicts a scene of boys at play, dated the renyin year (1902).

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.

From an English private collection, with copies of two invoices for The Little Shop, dated 18th August 1962 and 3rd January 1963.