AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLEChen Zhongsan Signed and dated xinhai year, corresponding to 1911 Of rounded rectangular shape, a continuous rocky river landscape, with figures and vessels near a ferry station heading to a walled city in the distance; stopper. 2 3/8in (6cm) high 1911年 陳仲三 玻璃内畫山水人物鼻煙壺 Provenance: Gerry P. Mack Christie's, London, The Gerry P. Mack Collection, 4 October 1999, lot 41 Exhibition: International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 84 來源： Gerry P. Mack舊藏 倫敦佳士得，Gerry P. Mack珍藏，1999年10月4日，拍品編號41 展覽： 國際中國鼻煙壺學會年會，紐約，2013年11月5日至9日，展品編號84 For another example of this artists work, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection , Hong Kong, 1993, p. 730, no. 448, where the authors note that he began his career copying the works of Zhou Leyuan and that it was not until 1916 that he discovered a subject which appears to be uniquely his own, a delightful river-side city with mutli-arched bridges and a succession of houses nestling amidst hills. According to Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 4, Part 2, Inside Painted p.531, no. 644, the earliest dated bottle by Chen is 1907 and the last dated in the autumn of 1919.