Bottle ID: 829

< Previous page

YAN YUTIAN, 1895, NATURE SCENE

Date: 1895

Height: 63 mm

A glass snuff bottle, of flattened, rectangular form with a cylindrical neck and a neatly carved oval footrim, painted on the inside using ink and watercolors, one main side with two pairs of birds beside a massive rock beside chrysanthemum and flowering prunus, the reverse with a massive rock on which is perched a grasshopper, with a large planter filled with moss and a flowering bush with a second grasshopper perched upon a flower, signed Yan Yutian with one red seal and dated.

 

Provenance:

Clare Chu Asian Art
A Private Los Angeles, CA Collection

 

< Back to full list