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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE For two other examples of similar type with rockwork groupings to one
Zhou Leyuan side and a river landscape to the other, a much-repeated subject, but
Signed, circa 1890 one which seldom had the appearance of commercialism, see Hugh
Of small rounded rectangular shape, finely painted with a sage and Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
his attendant walking towards a gnarled pine tree, with a waterfall and Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 4, Part I, Inside
flowing river in the distance, below an inscription dedicated by the Painted, pp. 136-137, no. 482, dated to 1890; and see Humphrey K.F.
artist to Ling Fu and followed by the seal, yin, the reverse with fan- Hui, Lai Suk Yee and Peter Y.K. Lam, Inkplay in Microcosm, Inside-
tailed goldfish swimming amidst fronds and rockwork with a dragonfly painted Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Humphrey K.F. Hui Collection, Art
flying above; stopper. Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002, no.10, dated
2 1/4in (5.8cm) high to 1886.

$4,000 - 5,000 For another example dated 1891, see Christie’s New York, The Ruth
and Carl Barron Collection, 14 September 2016, lot 431 and another
1890年前後 周樂元 玻璃内畫魚藻及松下高士童子圖鼻煙壺 dated 1890 with a figural landscape to one side and fish to the other,
see Christie’s New York, 18/19 September 2014, lot 1202.
Provenance:
Jin Hing & Co., Los Angeles, 1961
The Dodge Collection
Sotheby’s, New York, The Dodge Collection, 17 March 1997, lot 456

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