Inside Painting Snuff Bottle With Tigers

Tigers have appeared very early in Chinese archaic jades more than 2,000 years ago, and showed up in popular Chinese vernacular literature. In the 14th century novel “The Story of the Water Margin,” a outlaw who was also a local hero by the name of Wu Song singlehandedly killed a tiger. Tigers thus became a painting theme which has proliferated through the centuries and continue on today. T
This contemporary inside painted bottle shows a very lively and ferocious tiger on both sides of the glass bottle. The bottle itself has an interesting shape of have a rounded side and a straight side. It is not signed by the artist, but he or she shows proficiency at Tiger Paintings. The glass is of good quality and is matched with an agate stopper but no spoon.