AN INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
This lot is offered without reserve.
AN INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE

SIGNED WANG XISAN, DATED GENGZI (1960), BOTTLE 1750-1850

细节
AN INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
SIGNED WANG XISAN, DATED GENGZI (1960), BOTTLE 1750-1850
The bottle is decorated on either side with a warrior, one holding a halberd, the other a sword, with an inscription on one side incorporating a cyclical date gengzi (1960), and a signature, Xisan, followed by a red seal, 'Wang'.
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high, agate stopper
来源
The Mary and George Bloch Collection.
Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1996.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 2463.
注意事项
This lot is offered without reserve.

拍品专文

For a discussion of the artist Wang Xisan 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. The authors note, “As an artistic genius, Wang rapidly became one of the finest of all enamellers, both artistically and technically, that China has ever produced.” The artist paints glass snuff bottles and interior-painted snuff bottles, showing great artistry in both.

Wang’s earliest works from 1958 to the early 1960s are now amongst the rarest. For another bottle with an unusual subject of a qilin on one side and water buffalo on the reverse, dated to the same year as the present bottle (1960), see lot 236 in this catalogue.

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