Bottle ID: 781
Bottle Title
Date: 1968
Height: 55 mm
A ‘cobweb’ crystal snuff bottle, well hollowed, of squared form with raised panels on each of the sides, with a cylindrical neck and with a rectangular footrim, painted on the inside using ink and watercolors, one side with a winter scene of Meng Haoran astride his mule followed by his attendant carrying a prunus branch over his shoulder, a prunus tree in the background and bare trees in the foreground, the reverse with a figure outside the gates of a thatched and fenced house amidst snowy trees, below a title, Xue Jing (Snowy View), signed Wang Xisan and dated.
Similar Examples:
Crane Collection no.s 386, 647, 904
Provenance:
Bonhams New York, September 21, 2021, Lot 464
From the Collection of Manfred Arnold, New York
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd., April 27, 1983
Exhibited:
ICSBS Convention, New York, November 5 – 9, 2013, no. 22
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