AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Chen Zhongsan
Signed and dated xinhai year, corresponding to 1911
Of rounded rectangular shape, a continuous rocky river landscape, with figures and vessels near a ferry station heading to a walled city in the distance; stopper.
2 3/8in (6cm) high
Footnotes:
辛亥年（1911） 陳仲三 玻璃内畫山水人物鼻烟壺

Provenance:
Gerry P. Mack
Christie's, London, The Gerry P. Mack Collection, 4 October 1999, lot 41

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 84

For another example of this artists work, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 730, no. 448, where the authors note that he began his career copying the works of Zhou Leyuan and that it was not until 1916 that he discovered a subject which appears to be uniquely his own, a delightful river-side city with mutli-arched bridges and a succession of houses nestling amidst hills. According to Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 4, Part 2, Inside Painted p.531, no. 644, the earliest dated bottle by Chen is 1907 and the last dated in the autumn of 1919.