Lot 607 孟子受 一九一零年 玻璃内畫鼻烟壺 | AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

孟子受 一九一零年 玻璃内畫鼻烟壺 | AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE

Meng Zishou, dated gengxu year (1910) and of the period

GBP 800

GBP 800 - 1200

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Meng Zishou, dated gengxu year (1910) and of the period
Painted with a continuous scene of two warriors on horseback in pursuit of each other through a pine-filled landscape, stopper.
5.5cm (2 1/8in) high with stopper. (2).
Footnotes
孟子受 一九一零年 玻璃内畫鼻烟壺
款識：庚戌孟子受
Provenance: Margaret Polak, California
Robert Kleiner, London
A private collection, Edinburgh, acquired from the above 10th July 2007
Published and Illustrated: The Heriot Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Volume II, Edinburgh, 2020, p.113, fig.96
Margaret Polak was a passionate collector of Chinese snuff bottles. She wrote articles for the Journal of the ICSBS, and part of her collection was exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1991. In 2006, she gifted parts of her extensive snuff bottle collection to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.