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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« on: December 20, 2015, 03:38:00 am »

Dear Pat,

    It is a record price for a Meng Zishou, but this is the finest MZS Portrait known, and was also in Emily Byrne Curtis' book on IPSB Portrait bottles, Reflected Glory In A Bottle, NYC 1980. It is illustrated on pp.78 & 79, while the info is on pp.18 & 19.

    And before it was in the Edward Choate O'Dell collection, this gem was owned by Dr. Louis E. Wolferz, a noted early Western collector of IPSBs.  He was also a Christian missionary of Jewish ancestry, who'd had to leave Germany in the early 1930s because he was a 'non-Aryan Christian', and therefore subject to the same racial persecution as fellow Jews who'd not converted out.
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