Bottle ID: 782

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WANG XISAN, GLASS, WINTER SCENE WITH THATCHED HOUSE

Date: 1977

Height: 62 mm

A glass snuff bottle, of 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 snowy winter scene, one side with Huang Chengyen on his mule in a pine-filled mountainous landscape, the reverse with two figures sweeping the snow from the path of a thatched house beside an icy river, with a flock of birds flying above the snow-laden trees, signed Yihu Zhai (One Bottle Studio), by Wang Xisan and dated. 

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no.s 386, 647 and 781

Provenance:

Bonhams New York, September 21, 2021, Lot 466 
From the Collection of Manfred Arnold, New York 
Robert Kleiner, September 25, 2003

Exhibited:

ICSBS Convention, New York, November 5 – 9, 2013, no. 28

 

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