An inside-painted glass 'deer and dogs' snuff bottle Wang Baichuan, dated 1978
An inside-painted glass 'deer and dogs' snuff bottle
Wang Baichuan, dated 1978
The well hollowed body of compressed ovoid form with rounded shoulders, rising from a short oval foot to a cylindrical neck, the interior painted with the nostalgic scene of a spotted deer standing on the mountain top overlooking the panoramic landscape view amidst pine bushes and the autumn maple, the reverse juxtaposed with a pair of contrasting black and white canine by the shore beneath flowering white lilies, signature and painted seal mark of the artist.
8.8cm high.
Sold for HK$ 6,250 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance 來源:
    Agatha and Irving Aronson collection

    Illustrated 出版:
    Arts of Asia, March-April 1986, p.89, fig.11

    1978年 王百川 玻璃內畫犬鹿圖鼻煙壺

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Modern inside-painted snuff bottles from private collections (lots 682-714)

Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art


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