Bottle ID: 780

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MENG ZISHOU, CONTINUOUS SCENE OF GOLDFISH

Date: 1907

Height: 37 mm

A glass snuff bottle, of small, flattened, rectangular form, with shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck and with an oval footrim, painted on the inside using ink and watercolors with a continuous scene of fan-tailed goldfish swimming below the weeping branches of a willow with two swallows flying above near to the inscription and with a red seal, shou, signed Meng Zishou and dated.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 396
Sotheby's, New York, September 14, 2010, lot 140, The Joe Grimberg Collection

Provenance:

Bonhams New York, September 21, 2021, Lot 447 
From the Collection of Manfred Arnold, New York 
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, November 24, 2014, lot 187 
Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987-2014 
Robert Hall, London, 1987

Published:

Robert Hall. Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 1987, pp. 158-159, no. 78 
Robert Kleiner, Boda Yang and Clarence Shangraw. Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of George and Mary Bloch, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat no. 356 
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, Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 504-505, no. 632

Exhibited:

ICSBS Convention, London, October 12-18, 1987 
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, Chinese Snuff Bottles: A Miniature Art from the Collection of George and Mary Bloch 
National Museum of Singapore, Singapore, November 1994 – February 1995 
ICSBS Convention, Christie’s London, London, October 1999

 

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