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AN INSIDE-PAINTED ‘FISH AND LANDSCAPE’ GLASS SNUFF For an undated example attributed to between 1886 and 1869, see
BOTTLE Bonhams, New York, The Linda Riddell Hoffman Collection, 22 March
Zhou Leyuan, 1886 2011, lot 8. It is painted with a fisherman on one side and mossy
One main face painted with a single figure in a boat near pine on rockwork on the other. For another painted with fish beneath lotus to
a grassy shore with a mountain backdrop all below a descriptive one side and dated to 1892, see Bonhams, New York, 9 September
inscription, signature and seal, the other side with one carp amidst 2019, lot 104.
fronds looking up at another swimming amongst smaller fish, all
alongside the cyclical date, a second signature and seal. For another example dated 1890 with a figural landscape to one side
2 3/8in (5.8cm) high, stopper and fish to the other, see Christie’s New York, 18/19 September 2014,
lot 1202.
$5,000 - 7,000
1886年 周樂元作 玻璃內畫山水及魚樂圖鼻煙壺

For two other examples with a river landscape on one side, a much-
repeated subject, but one which seldom had the appearance of
commercialism in Zhou Leyuan’s hand, 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,
and like our example dated to 1886; and 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.

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