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AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE
Yan Yutian, dated 1895 Zhou Leyuan
The rounded rectangular bottle standing on a splayed foot ring, with Of rounded rectangular form, with a cylindrical neck, flat lip, splayed
a flared neck and flat lip, painted in ink and a restrained palette, oval foot ring, one side painted with a scholarly theme featuring
one side depicting a fisherman docking his boat to the bank of a a perforated rock, bonsai and a vase filled with bare branches,
mountainside lake, the other portraying an autumn’s delight still-life inscribed with a four-line poem, signed Zhou Leyuan, the other side
featuring potted chrysanthemums, crabs, and fruits; the upper left painted in ink and blue pigment to depict a placid summer scene of a
dated yiwei (1895), signed Yan Yutian, followed by a red mark. cicada resting on a tree branch with a dragonfly hovering nearby.
2 7/16in (5.9cm) high 2 2/4in (6.4cm) high
$2,500 - 3,500 $3,000 - 5,000

1895年 閻玉田作水晶內畫人物山水及靜物鼻煙壺 周樂元作玻璃內畫靜物蟬柳圖鼻煙壺 《周樂元》款

Provenance
Jade House, Hong Kong, 7 July 1997

Yan Yutian (active 1894-1919) is believed to be a Manchu, but little
is known of his life. He painted with a predominantly brown and grey
palette, and most of his subjects are charming landscapes, still-lifes,
and birds. Yan dated most of his bottles either to 1895 or 1907.

Compare two snuff bottles by Yan Yutian from the Bloch Collection,
both dated 1895, one sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 23 November
2010, sale 18592, lot 117, the other illustrated in Chinese Snuff
Bottles in the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Robert Kleiner,
fig. 431, p.660.

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