Bottle ID: 779

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Date: 1895

Height: 65 mm

A glass snuff bottle, of flattened, rectangular form, with shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck and with an oval footrim, painted on the inside using ink and watercolors in tones of purple, gray, red and brown, with on one side a scene of a swallow flying over a lotus pond below the inscription and seal Yutian, the reverse with a bird of prey perched on a gnarled prunus branch near bamboo, signed Yan Yutian and dated.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no.s 111 and 659
Silver, Joseph Baruch. Worlds In A Bottle; Chinese Inside Painted Snuff bottles and Traditional Paintings, 1998, p. 68, no. A-23
 

Provenance:

Bonhams New York, September 21, 2021, Lot 411 
From the Collection of Manfred Arnold, New York 
Sotheby’s New York, March 17, 1997, lot 492 
A private Canadian Collection

 

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