AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE Chen Zhongsan, 1918AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLEChen Zhongsan, 1918The well-formed bottle supported on a splayed oval footrim, with a spreading neck and flat lip; painted in subdued watercolors on one side with a hovering butterfly, a praying mantis and a grasshopper nibbling on large-leafed plants, the upper left dated wuwu (1918), signed Chen Zhongsan preceding a red seal mark, the reverse depicting an array of mountains surrounded by water, fronted with a monkey seated on a pine tree above a stag standing near auspicious lingzhi branches springing from a grassy ground.2 5/8in (6.7cm) high戊午年 (1918) 陳仲三 玻璃内畫昆蟲植物及仙猴壽鹿圖鼻煙壺一件《陳仲三》款Provenance:Joan and Ted Dorf Collection, no. 24Chen Zhongsan was a late arrival to the Beijing School as his works, of which there are approximately 60 extant bottles, span the years 1907 through 1919, three-quarters of them being dated. Chen retained his own, recognizable style throughout his career and is renowned for the filling in of detailed compositions.