A CHINESE AGATE INSIDE PAINTED SNUFF BOTTLE SIGNED BY WANG X...

Estimate

£500 - £1,000

A CHINESE AGATE INSIDE PAINTED SNUFF BOTTLE SIGNED BY WANG XISAN

dated 1978, the front decorated with a lion prowling beside a waterfall, the reverse a tiger in a mountainous landscape, 7cm high overall

Provenance: Sotheby's, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, 23rd March 1988, Lot 207.
Ex. Eric Young collection.

The Dick Hardy Collection.

Note: Born in 1938, Wang Xisan (Wang Ruicheng) was the star pupil of Ye Bengqi, the son of Ye Zhongsan, the artist who revitalized the Beijing school of painting in the late 1950s. For a discussion on the artist Wang Xisan see Moss, Graham, Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, Volume 6, Part 1, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 273-275. The author's note, “As an artistic genius, Wang rapidly became one of the finest of all enamellers, both artistically and technically, that China has ever produced.” The artist paints glass snuff bottles and interior-painted snuff bottles, showing great artistry in both.