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A RARE INSIDE-PAINTED DOUBLE ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF For another Zhang Baotian bottle of more regular shape and also
BOTTLE dated to 1892 depicting figures in vast landscapes and with a lenghty
Zhang Baotian discussion of the artists aims in such a depiction, see see Humphrey
Signed Baotian and dated renxu year, corresponding to 1892 K.F. Hui, Lai Suk Yee and Peter Y.K. Lam, Inkplay in Microcosm,
Each section of slender rectangular cylinder shape, one finely painted Inside-painted Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Humphrey K.F. Hui
with a scholarly figure in a wooded landscape beneath a ‘v’-formation Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002,
of flying geese on one side and a fisherman in a boat on the other, no. 94.
the conjoined bottle painted with a figure riding an ox-plough in a lake
landscape on one side and a winter tree on the other; stoppers. For an inside-painted example dated to the preceding year, 1891,
2in (5.2cm) high painted with a figural landscape, see Bonhams, New York, 9
September 2019, lot 143.
$3,000 - 4,000
壬戌年（1892） 張葆田 水晶内畫山水人物雙連鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Mrs. D. Berwald, London
Robert Kleiner, 25 October 2004

Exhibited:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9
November 2013, no. 104

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