AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLEWang Xisan Signed Yihu Zhai (One Bottle Studio) and dated gengxu year, corresponding to 1970 followed by the seal Ji Painted on one main face with a portrait of Hua Tuo the so-called founder of Chinese medicine and on the reverse with a butterfly hovering beside a slender day-lily springing from rockwork, low-relief lion-mask ring handles to the narrow sides; stopper. 2 3/8in (6cm) high 1970年 王習三 水晶内畫華佗像鋪首銜環鼻烟壺 《一壺齋》款 Provenance: Alice B. McReynolds Sotheby's, New York, The Alice B. McReynolds Collection, Part II, 16 April 1985, lot 176 Exhibited: International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 33 來源： Alice B. McReynolds舊藏 紐約蘇富比，《Alice B. McReynolds珍藏》第二部分，1985年4月16日，拍品編號176 展覽： 國際中國鼻烟壺協會年會，紐約，2013年11月5日至9日，展品編號33 Wang Xisan used the seal Ji (a short form for the character meaning Hebei province) while working at Hengshui under the One Bottle Studio banner. For a slightly smoky crystal bottle by Wang Xisan with the identical subject though a different inscription and dated 1969, see Hugh M. Moss, An Exhibition of Chinese Snuff Bottles , London, June, 1970, p. 87, no. 363. See Christie's, New York, 20-21 March 2014, lot 2443 for another historical portrait of a similar date.