AN INSIDE PAINTED MOSS AGATE 'BOATING AND GOLDFISH' SNUFF BOTTLE...

The Bruce Family Collection (lot 1 to 100)
AN INSIDE PAINTED MOSS AGATE 'BOATING AND GOLDFISH' SNUFF BOTTLE
The bottle 1780-1880, painted later in the style of Ye Zhongsan
coral stopper, measured without the stopper 6.1cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Yuan Feng, Hong Kong, 31 Jul 1962, #3652 (invoice, and V. Bruce's snuff bottle journal, #6)

（壺）1780至1880，以葉仲三風格繪於其後 水藻瑪瑙內畫「汎舟清談•金玉滿堂」鼻煙壺、珊瑚蓋

傳承：
香港源豐，1962年7月31日，編號3652（賬單，及 V. Bruce 鼻煙壺札記，編號6)

Moss agate bottles with inside painted goldfish are often associated with Ye Zhongsan, see one illustrated in Hugh Moss, Chinese snuff bottles from the collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K. C. M. G., London: Hugh Moss Publications Ltd., 1974, p. 153, M.8.

苔紋瑪瑙內畫金魚鼻煙壺常與葉仲三相關，參考一例，見Hugh Moss，Chinese snuff bottles from the collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K. C. M. G.，倫敦，Hugh Moss Publications Ltd.，1974年，頁153，編號M.8。