Chinese Inside-Painted Clear Amethyst Glass Snuff Bottle, Wang-Hsi (Xisan), 1974. Painted on each side with six boys in a garden, each holding a red celestial disc, and surrounded on both sides by animals totaling the twelve animals of the zodiac, carved mask and ring handles in relief, the sapphire in matrix stopper within a silver collar. H: 3 in., W: 2.375 in., D: 1.25 in. Provenance: Hugh M. Moss, Ltd., London, January 1975.

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3 x 2.375 x 1.25 in