AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE BY CHEN ZHONGSAN, DATED 1911Exhibited: International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 84.China. Of rounded rectangular form, supported on a thick oval foot and rising to a cylindrical neck. Finely painted with a continuous and highly detailed scene of merchants, workers, travelers, and ferrymen in a rocky river landscape, one side with men waiting by a ferry station, a walled city in the upper background.Inscriptions: To one side, upper left, signed ‘Chen Zhongsan’ and dated ‘On an Autumn day in the Year of Xinhai [corresponding to 1911] in Beijing’. One seal of the artist.Provenance: The Gerry P. Mack Collection. Christie’s London, 4 October 1999, lot 41. Manfred Arnold, acquired from the above. The base with an old label, ‘Arnold Collection. 224’. Gerry P. Mack was an important collector of Chinese snuff bottles. According to Robert Kleiner’s foreword to the catalog of the Christie’s sale of The Gerry P. Mack Collection, he “was one of the great snuff bottle collectors of the twentieth century. The bottles for which Gerry had a weakness have stood the test of time and more remarkably, of our increased knowledge of the subject. Gerry's achievement was to align on bottles which he liked and which are still highly sought after and in many cases among the finest of their type”. Manfred Arnold (1938-2022) was a German-born maritime arbitrator and a keen collector of Chinese snuff bottles. He was a leader within the maritime arbitrationmunity, serving five terms as the president of the Society of Maritime Arbitrators, Inc. and being recently cited in a United States Supreme Court case. He built his collection of snuff bottles over a fifty-year period.Condition: Excellent condition with only very minor wear and manufacturing irregularities.Stopper: Jadeite stopper with plateletWeight: 37 gDimensions: Height incl. stopper 66 mm. Diameter neck 17 mm and mouth 6 mmExpert’s note: According to Hugh Moss, Victor Graham, and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, page 730, no. 448, Chen Zhongsan began his career copying the works of Zhou Leyuan and it was not until 1916 that he discovered a subject that appears to be uniquely his own. The earliest dated bottle by Chen is from 1907 and the very last dated example is from the autumn of 1919.Auction resultparison:Type: Closely relatedAuction: Christie’s Hong Kong, 25 May 2011, lot 81Price: HKD 66,000 or approx.EUR 10,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: An inside-painted glass ‘snowscape’ snuff bottle, Chen Zhongsan, dated 1917Expert remark: Note the size (6.2 cm excluding the stopper)陳仲三內畫《山水人物》鼻煙壺，1911年中國。長方圓角，圈足。精美地描繪了各類人物形象，如行人和擺渡人，兩岸群山峻嶺，景色優美，遠處有一道城牆。展覽: 紐約《International Chinese Snuff Bottle Socie