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A RARE EARLY INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE For a slightly later example with mossy rockwork and vessels, see
Zhou Leyuan Bonhams, New York, The Linda Riddell Hoffman Collection, 22 March
Signed and dated renwu year, corresponding to 1882 2011, lot 8. For another with a bird amidst branches and fish beneath
One main face deftly painted in a delicate manner with a mountain lotus dated to 1892, see Bonhams, New York, 9 September 2019,
lake landscape with a hut, trees, including a willow and a bridge, the lot 104 . According to Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang,
reverse side with a grasshopper on a cabbage amidst other grasses Treasury, Vol. 4, Part 1, Inside Painted, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 93, no.
and reeds below the inscription and positive seal script seals, Leyuan 465, the earliest known bottles by Zhou Leyuan bearing dates are an
and possibly Le yin; stopper. 1879 example in the Anne Kreuger Collection and another dated 1881,
2 7/8in (7.3cm) high offered at Sotheby’s, London, 28 October 1970, lot 248. That would
therefore place this bottle amongst the earliest known dated bottles by
$4,000 - 6,000 the artist and would presumably attest to the unusual use of a positive
seal script for the seals on this bottle rather than the more ubiquitous
壬午年(1882) 周樂元 玻璃内畫山水及蟲草圖鼻煙壺 negative seal script seen through most of the artist’s career.

Provenance:
Rotholz Collection, Boston,
Robert Kleiner, The Rotholz Collection, 1 December 2005

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 116

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