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A FINE INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS BOTTLE According to Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A
Signed Yan Yutien and dated Yiwei year corresponding to 1895 Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch
Of slender rectangular shape, finely painted in black ink and tones of Collection, Vol. 4, Part 2, Inside Painted, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 458,
sepia to one side with a tapering straight-sided jardinière with pierced no. 612, Yan Yutian lived and painted in the same Chongwen district
rockwork and chrysanthemum, a smaller bronze vessel on stand with of Beijing as the Ye family, as relayed to him by Ye Bengqi in 1974,
flowers, possibly orchids and a cricket atop a bamboo cricket cage who he remembered from his younger days. His earliest dated work
and cover, the other side with a spring willow with three cicada’s in appears to be a single bottle of 1894. The authors note that over
the branches and small flowering plant behind, possibly orchid and a sixty were produced the following year, 1895, the year of our bottle.
short inscription and seal. The authors illustrate two bottles each dated to 1895, one painted
2 3/8in (6cm) high, stopper, box with a vegetal scene with cabbage leaves and chrysanthemum
blooms, the other with a landscape scene, pp.466-467, no. 616 and
$3,000 - 3,500 pp.470-471, no. 618, respectively and further discuss Yan Yutian’s
artistic development.
玻璃内繪秋景鼻烟壺 閆玉田乙未年款

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