AN INSIDE-PAINTED SMOKY CRYSTAL BOTTLEYe Zhongsan Signed and dated jiazi year, corresponding to 1924, Beijing Painted on one side with Huang Chengyan riding through a winter landscape followed by an attendant carrying a gourd, the other side with a greeting at a gateway; stopper. 2 1/8in (5.5cm) high 1924年 葉仲三 煙晶内畫黃承彥踏雪寒江圖鼻煙壺 北京 Provenance: Sotheby's, London, A Private Collection , 5 December 1983 Exhibited: International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 24 來源： 倫敦蘇富比，1983年12月5日，《私人珍藏》 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24 For further discussion of the subject, Huang Chengyan, from the novel Sanguo Yanyi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), see Ka Bo Tsang, 'Who is the Rider on the Donkey? Some New Observations,' ICSBS Journal , Summer 1994, pp. 5-7. Another rock-crystal example by Ye Zhongsan, formerly in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with identical scenes and dated to the following year 1925 is illustrated by Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles New York and Tokyo, 1976, pp. 244-245, no. 902. For a smoky quartz bottle depicting the same subject, see Christie's, New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Part V, 13 September 2017, lot 203.