Bottle ID: 828

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MENG ZISHOU, NATURE SCENE, 1906

Date: 1906

Height: 57 mm

A glass snuff bottle, of flattened, rectangular form with a cylindrical neck and a neatly carved oval footrim, painted on the inside using ink and watercolors, one main side with a rooster standing on a grassy bank beside a massive rock beside grasses and flowering cockscomb, the reverse with a scene of bok choy growing in the grass with grasshoppers perched on top of the leaves along with a ladybug, with a dragonfly and a butterfly in the air above, signed Meng Zishou with one red seal, and dated.

Provenance:

Clare Chu Asian Art
Bruce and Ruth Stricker Dayton, IL.

 

 

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