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CIRCA 1892-1915
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TWO INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
CIRCA 1892-1915
The first bottle, 1892-1915, by Tang Zichuan and with an apocryphal signature of Zhou Leyuan, is decorated on either side with a mountainous river landscape. The second bottle, signed Chen Zhongsan and dated jiyou year (1909), is painted on one side with a male figure riding a donkey followed by an attendant in a mountainous landscape, the reverse with a crane gazing at the sun on a rocky outcrop next to a pine tree and flowers.
Both: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high, glass stoppers
CIRCA 1892-1915
The first bottle, 1892-1915, by Tang Zichuan and with an apocryphal signature of Zhou Leyuan, is decorated on either side with a mountainous river landscape. The second bottle, signed Chen Zhongsan and dated jiyou year (1909), is painted on one side with a male figure riding a donkey followed by an attendant in a mountainous landscape, the reverse with a crane gazing at the sun on a rocky outcrop next to a pine tree and flowers.
Both: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high, glass stoppers
Provenance
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, nos. 481 and 5149.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.