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Shaow Box with Interior Painted Snuff Bottle
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$72.00 Reg.
$37.00 SALE
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Inside the shadow box wall decor is an interior painted snuff bottle. The paint is part of the most famous Chinese painting - Qing Ming River scene in Song Dynasty (960-1279). The layer is covered with fabric of elaborated floret pattern. From the center, the yellow, green, yellow layers are designed for decoration. Besides, the front layer emphasizes the treasure with arty carving. The frame of the case is designed with the idea from shape of bamboo.
The art of interior painting in snuff bottles was born and developed in China and unique to country, even though snuff bottles are no native to China. A popular story tells how the art originated. In the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), an official addicted to snuff bottle on his way at a small temple for a rest. When he took out his crystal snuff bottle to take a sniff, he found it was already empty. He then scraped off a little of the powder that had stuck on the interior wall of the bottle by means of a slender bamboo stick, thus leaving lines on the inside, visible through the transparent wall. A young monk saw him at this and hit upon the idea of making pictures inside the bottle. Thus a new art was born.
The "painting brush" of the snuff bottle artist today is not very different from what the official in the story used at the beginning. It is a slender bamboo stick, not much thicker but much longer than a match, with the tip shaped like a fine-pointed hook. Dipped in colored ink and thrust inside the bottle, the hooked tip is employed to paint on the interior surfaces of the walls, following the will of the painter.
The art became perfected and flourished towards the end of the Qing Dynasty, at the turn of the last century.
Snuff bottles are small in size, no more than 6-7 cm high and 4-5 cm wide, yet the accomplished artist can produce, on the limited space of the internal surfaces, any subject on the whole gamut of traditional Chinese painting- human portraits, landscapes, flowers and birds- and calligraphy.
Art shadow box wall decor – fine frame art wall decoration with featured antique treasure reproduction.
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Item Number
401-232-1
Price
$72.00 Reg.
$37.00 SALE
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Specifications
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Length |
11 in |
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Width |
11 in |
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Depth |
2 in |
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