AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS 'HUNTER AND FISHERMAN' SNUFF BOTTLE Sun Xingwu, 1896PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF KIM GREENAN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS 'HUNTER AND FISHERMAN' SNUFF BOTTLESun Xingwu, 1896Of elongated, rectangular form with shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck with flat lip and standing on a carved oval footrim, the interior of the bottle very well painted with ink and softly-hued watercolors, one side with a horseman looking up at goose pierced with his arrow falling from the sky, while a pair of geese fly away towards the distant mountains, the reverse with a fisherman sitting on the banks of a river where pavilions are nestled amongst blossoming trees, the opposite bank moored with sampans, the river wending its way into the distant mountains, signed Sun Xingwu, dedicated for the approval of Yutang, an honorable elder brother, dated bingshen duan yue (first month of 1896), with one red seal. 2 1/2in (6.2cm) high丙申 (1896) 孫星五 玻璃内畫獨釣清溪圖鼻煙壺一件《孫星五》款Provenance:Acquired in 2010 Kim Green collection no. 123