AN ENGRAVED OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE

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AN ENGRAVED OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BOTTLE
SIGNED ZHOU HONGBIN AND DATED AUTUMN DAY OF XINCHOU YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1901

One side engraved with a scholar seated on a knoll beside bamboo staring at the sky, a name inscribed to one side, the reverse similarly engraved with a nine-line poem including the cyclical date and artist's name Zhou Hongbin, the engraved areas highlighted in black, stopper

拍品专文

The name inscribed on the side depicting the scholar is that of Wang Xiao Mei, a famous painter (1794-1877) from Yangzhou in Jiangshu province known for his figure, flower and animal studies. For two similar bottles attributed to Zhou Honglai, see Robert W.L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, col.pl. 133 and 134, bearing cyclical dates equivalent to 1902 and 1903. Interestingly one of these is in fact signed Baimen Hongbin followed by the seal Zhou, presumably the same hand as our example

For a bottle dated to the same year and very closely related in subject matter see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles IV, Catalogue, Boston, October 10, 1991, lot 89; and another by Sidney L. Moss, The Literati Mode, 1986, pl.113