An Inside-Painted Glass Bottle

SIGNED ZHOU LEYUAN, C. 1884

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An Inside-Painted Glass Bottle
Signed Zhou Leyuan, c. 1884
Of flattened rounded rectangular shape painted to one side with a rocky landscape, three figures sitting on a hill side clearing with mountains and houses in the distance, the reverse with a rocky outcrop with a cricket, both sides with inscriptions, no stopper
2in. (7cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a similar early bottle by Zhou Leyuan dated 1884, also painted with a scene of small figures dwarfed in a mountainous landscape, see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, pp. 198-199, no. 264

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