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Lot Essay
A seal above the hunter reads tianran (natural).
For a very similar bottle from the Mary and George Bloch Collection, see Clare Lawrence, 'An Analysis of the Seal School Group of Glass Snuff Bottles,' I.C.S.B.S., Journal, Summer, 1993, pp. 4-17, fig. 30 where it is compared to a painting by one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou," Hua Yan, dated 1755 depicting a similar scene. The Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou followed the traditional literati practice of adding inscriptions and seals to their work. Interestingly, the Eight Eccentrics also used sepia to great effect on their canvases and the peculiar color found on this bottle certainly mimics its use.
For further discussion of the Bloch bottle which is signed by the maker Sun Shihua and dated 1807 see Robert Kleiner, op. cit., pp. 259-260, no. 172
For a very similar bottle from the Mary and George Bloch Collection, see Clare Lawrence, 'An Analysis of the Seal School Group of Glass Snuff Bottles,' I.C.S.B.S., Journal, Summer, 1993, pp. 4-17, fig. 30 where it is compared to a painting by one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou," Hua Yan, dated 1755 depicting a similar scene. The Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou followed the traditional literati practice of adding inscriptions and seals to their work. Interestingly, the Eight Eccentrics also used sepia to great effect on their canvases and the peculiar color found on this bottle certainly mimics its use.
For further discussion of the Bloch bottle which is signed by the maker Sun Shihua and dated 1807 see Robert Kleiner, op. cit., pp. 259-260, no. 172