Bottle ID: 778

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ZHOU LEYUAN, GLASS, MOUNTAINOUS LANDSCAPE

Date: 1891

Height: 56 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 with a continuous scene of a mountainous landscape with fishermen in their boats on the river, the banks with pavilions nestled among pine trees, signed ‘Zhou Leyuan, painted at the Lotus Fragrance Studio, Beijing’ followed by the seal Yuanyin and dated.

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection, no. 352
Kleiner, Robert. Chinese Snuff Bottles - The White Wings Collection, 1997,
p. 255, no. 176.
Moss, Hugh, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang. A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles - The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 4, Part 1, pp. 175-177, no. 498.

Provenance:

Bonhams New York, September 21, 2021, Lot 405 
From the Collection of Manfred Arnold, New York 
Sotheby’s New York, February 26, 1983, lot 220 
Dr. and Mrs. Louis E. Wolferz

 

 

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