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Bi Rongjiu was the first one in Shandong who began painting inside bottles in 1893. At that time he had a friend who made bottles and provided them to Zhou Leyuan and other painters. Bi learned something about inside painting, tried it, and eventually succeeded. His paintings were never very good but he is remembered primarily as the founder of the Shandong School of inside painting. A New Look of Chinese Inside Painted Snuff Bottles - J.H. Leung |