An inside-painted yellow glass 'Sun Yat Sen' snuff bottle


Signed Wang Xisan, cyclically dated to binchen year corresponding to 1976Of rounded square form, delicately painted mostly en grisaille with a half-length portrait of Dr Sun Yat Sen seated at a desk, flanked by an inscription commemorating his 100th birthday on the right and the date, signature and mock seal of the artist on the left, the reverse with a mock seal reiterating the commemoration, followed by a lengthy quote signed Sun Man, dated to the eleventh day of the third month, stopper. 6.1cm (2 1/2in) high. (2).
|1976年 王習三 玻璃內畫孫中山人像鼻煙壺Provenance:Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3 May 1995, lot 650A distinguished Asian private collection來源：香港蘇富比，1995年5月3日，拍品編號650亞洲顯赫私人收藏For bottles painted with a portrait by the same artist, see two from the Eric Young collection, which were sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 October 1993, lot 1282 and 1283; and another with the portrait of Nancy Reagen, which was sold at Christie's New York, 21-22 September 2016, lot 245.Wang Xisan (born 1938) was trained by Ye Benqi and Ye Xiaofeng, sons of the late 19th century master Ye Zhongsan, and was the first student outside of the Ye family to be trained by the family. For a discussion on the artist, see H.Moss, V.Graham and K.B.Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection, Tokyo, 1993, no.449.其他王習三內畫人像鼻煙壺，可參考Eric Young舊藏二例，售於香港蘇富比，1993年10月28日，拍品編號1282及1283；另見內畫美國前總統夫人南茜列根之例，售於紐約佳士得，2016年9月21-22日，拍品編號245。王習三（生於1938年）為著名內畫鼻煙壺大師，拜清末民初的知名內畫藝術家葉仲三的兒子葉曉峰和葉菶祺為師，成為葉派首位外姓弟子。更多有關王習三的論述可參閱莫士撝，Victor Graham及曾嘉寶著，《The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection》，東京，1993年，編號449。