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Wang Xisan - Rekindling the Lost Art of Painting Inside Snuff Bottles 

If you got a chance to visit an antiques store in China, snuff bottles may be one item of interest to you. They were used by the Chinese people during the Qing Dynasty to store powdered tobacco. It soon became an object of beauty and a way to represent social status. What arouses the most interest are the pictures painted from the inside. The delightful and varied scenes only cover an area of an inch or two and are painted using a brush inserted into the neck of the bottle. Undoubtedly, this requires an extremely skilful and steady hand. On today's show, we'll meet one of the top contemporary artists able to paint inside bottles. His name is Wang Xisan.

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