Hi All
Any serious collector of Modern Inside Painted Bottles ( " IPB's" ) will very soon find - as I did - that
essential reading is J. H. Leung's landmark book of 1990 : " A New Look of Inside Painted Snuff Bottles" ( "
New Look" for short) This details the collecting history of Mr J.H. Leung in the period ( 1975? ) 1980 - 1990 .
Mr Leung was a very wealthy HK business man , and was totally dedicated to the Modern School of IPBs. So he spared no expense to build up what must have been THE greatest collection of all time in the world of Modern School IPB's ( The Modern School IPB equivalent of the Bloch Collection )
His book is full of the detailed histories of all the current Masters of the Modern School, starting with Wang Xisan himself, as well as pictures of all the bottles Mr Leung collected.
Sadly Mr Leung died in about 1993 and his collection was auctioned off.
J. H. Leung's book was published in both English and Chinese versions . The English version has a few extra pages of very late additions to his collection . But both versions are now long out of print.
However ! Second hand copies of the English version are usually available via specialist second hand book websites, in particular
Abe Books www.abebooks.com .
Abe Books links to various other specialist art book sites, in particular
Crunruh Books You can easily google these sites . Start with Abe Books . There are currently 3 copies of " New Look" for sale at prices between US$ 140 -180. I have dealt with both Abe and Crunruh and found them 100% reliable ( and also bought 2 copies of the English version : one for spare / rainy day )
So if you want your own copy of "New Look" , you now know where to buy a copy !I have high resolution scans of both the English
and Chinese versions. I am happy to send any collector a copy of these scans
free of charge if you send me a 2 GB memory stick and a USD 10 / EUR 10 cash note (bill) to cover the cost of packing and postage .
You can contact me at :
peterbentleyhk@hotmail.comP.O. Box 20033
Hennessy Road Post Office
Wanchai
HONG KONG
Cheers Peter @ HK