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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2020, 11:15:15 pm »
I love these 'unwrapped' views.
An artist by the name of Suart did a whole series of these for the Bloch Collection. I'm guessing this is one of his.
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2020, 02:46:43 am »
Very beautiful.
I suppose that it has not been made with a special photographic technique, it must be matter of image processing software.
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2020, 03:00:52 am »
Dear Giovanni,

If this is by the artist who I think produces it, no computer software was involved. The artist carefully copied the scene from the bottle, using nothing more than watercolours, a brush, and his eye.

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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2020, 04:39:05 am »
Very nice.

He ought to put them all together in a book as I would happily buy it.

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« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2020, 06:54:12 am »
Yes, these are quite amazing. And as Tom said, totally hand and eye - no technology used.
I have a watercolour showing the front and reverse of a Ye Zhongsan "Fish Swimming" subject in a Tourmalinated Quartz
[Black Hair Crystal] snuff bottle. It has the monogram GM [or MG] and 1971.
It was done for Hugh Moss 13 years before the Blochs started collecting snuff bottles 'professionally'.

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« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2020, 07:08:16 am »
Hi Adrian,

If you would like to see more work from this artist try this link:
https://www.facebook.com/suartpeter/

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« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2020, 12:22:48 pm »
Dear Tom,
thank you. I did not realize that it was a painting, I thought it was an elaborated picture of the SB painting.
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« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2020, 09:20:46 pm »
I may be mistaken about the illustration being brush and watercolour.
Looking at some of Peter Suart's book illustrations I think it may be done with colouring pencils over a light wash.

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