AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS 'CHILDREN AT PLAY' SNUFF BOTTLE SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, DATED XINWEI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1931

the interior finely painted with a continuous scene of a group of children in a garden playing blind-man's-bluff and piggyback racing, dated and signed Ye Zhongsan with one seal reading yin, stopper (2)

The stopper is stuck in the mouth of the bottle. The exterior mouth rim and foot ring are both beveled, possibly to polish out old chips. There is a minor flake chip to the exterior mouth rim. The foot ring and underside are slightly abraded. The stone has natural inclusions.
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