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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Zhou Leyuan, 1888
Of small rounded rectangular shape, one main face painted with a
mountain landscape with a stream and waterfall running towards a
small building on a promontory under pine and other trees, the other
with a large vertical mossy rock with a lingzi spray attached with a
kettle and a small jardiniere nearby, inscribed and dated wuzi and
signed Zhou Leyuan with a painted seal.
2 5/16in (5.7cm) high, stopper

$2,500 - 4,000

1888年 周樂元 玻璃內畫山水圖鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Asiantiques, September 1994

For two other examples of similar type with rockwork groupings to one
side and a river landscape to the other, a much-repeated subject, but
one which seldom had the appearance of commercialism, see Hugh
Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff
Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 4, Part I, Inside
Painted, pp. 136-137, no. 482, dated to 1890; and see Humphrey K.F.
Hui, Lai Suk Yee and Peter Y.K. Lam, Inkplay in Microcosm, Inside-
painted Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Humphrey K.F. Hui Collection, Art
Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002, no.10, dated
to 1886.

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