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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS BOTTLE Exhibited:
Yan Yutian Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Signed and dated wushu year, corresponding to 1898 International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, Waldorf Astoria,
Of rounded rectangular, one main face painted with large bird on a tree New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 132.
branch with blossoming prunus and bamboo beneath the signature,
date and seal, the reverse with squirrels, grapes, a fruit bowl and For another example dated 1895 depicting a cat watching butterflies,
prunus sprays; stopper. see Christie’s, New York, The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Part
2 7/8in (7.3cm) high VI, lot 634. See also Terese Tse Bartholomew, Hidden Meanings
in Chinese Art, San Francisco, 2006, p.79, no. 3.27, for further
$2,500 - 3,500 discussion on the subject of squirrels as symbols of fertility, particularly
in combination with grapes.
戊戍年（1898） 閆玉田 玻璃內畫花鳥及松鼠葡萄鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Magaretet Polak
Bonhams, New York, The Margaret Polak Collection of Fine Chinese
Snuff Bottles, 24 March 2010, lot 172

Literature:
Humphrey K.F. Hui, Margaret Polak and Christopher C.H. Sin, Hidden
Treasures of the Dragon: Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collections
of Humphrey K.F. Hui, Margaret Polak and Christopher C.H. Sin, Art
Gallery New South Wales, Hong Kong, 1991, no. 53

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