AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL 'AQUATIC' SNUFF BOTTLESigned Ye Zhongsan, dated to the Bingchen Year, corresponding to 1916 and of the period The natural flaws in the crystal incorporated into the composition to resemble water weeds, painted with two black fish and two goldfish, signature and seal of the artist. 5.6cm (2 1/4in) high. Footnotes一九一六年 葉仲三作 髮晶內畫「金玉滿堂」圖鼻煙壺 Provenance: Sotheby's London, 5 December 1983, lot 190 來源:倫敦蘇富比,1983年12月5日,拍品編號190 Ye Zhongsan was the main pioneer in using needle-like crystals of tourmaline that give hair-crystal its name as reeds, providing his fish with a naturalistic environment. Compare with a related inside-painted glass snuff bottle by Ye Zhongsan, dated to 1897, which was sold at Bonhams New York, 18 March 2019, lot 725.
AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL 'AQUATIC' SNUFF BOTTLESigned Ye Zhongsan, dated to the Bingchen Year, corresponding to 1916 and of the period The natural flaws in the crystal incorporated into the composition to resemble water weeds, painted with two black fish and two goldfish, signature and seal of the artist. 5.6cm (2 1/4in) high. Footnotes一九一六年 葉仲三作 髮晶內畫「金玉滿堂」圖鼻煙壺 Provenance: Sotheby's London, 5 December 1983, lot 190 來源:倫敦蘇富比,1983年12月5日,拍品編號190 Ye Zhongsan was the main pioneer in using needle-like crystals of tourmaline that give hair-crystal its name as reeds, providing his fish with a naturalistic environment. Compare with a related inside-painted glass snuff bottle by Ye Zhongsan, dated to 1897, which was sold at Bonhams New York, 18 March 2019, lot 725.
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