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Cannot identify the artist on this bottle.

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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« Reply #40 on: March 29, 2016, 08:36:08 pm »

Dear Marcos,

      I have learned a lot from Y.F. Yang, the 3rd or 4th generation snuff bottle dealer, originally from Beijing, now living in Honolulu.
I asked him about whether I should try to clean the snuff staining on one of my Early Period bottles, a landscape attributed to Gan Xuanwen.
   
     He said to imagine it was a painting on silk which had aged and yellowed with the centuries. So I then asked if I should put snuff in all my IPSBs, to reproduce the effect.  His answer was: "NO! If it is clean, leave it clean. But if it is snuff-stained, make a virtue of necessity and think about it in a different way". Which is very 'Daoist' in thinking for a Chinese Moslem like Y.F. Yang! Grin

     Personally, I do not think it lowers the value, unless there is a lot of damage to the painting from scraping by the snuff spoon.
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Joey
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Joey Silver (Si Zhouyi 義周司), collecting snuff bottles since Feb.1970

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