Lot 401
401
AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL BOTTLE

Details
AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL BOTTLE
SIGNED ZHOU LEYUAN

Of spade shape, painted on one side with a fur-wrapped figure poling his craft down a windswept river valley with willows, and on the reverse with a still-life scene of rockwork and vessels, some internal flaws to the stone, stopper
Literature
Antiques, 1974, and reprinted in the International Snuff Bottle Society Journal, 1974, Vol.6, no. 2

Lot Essay

For a similar bottle by the same artist depicting a figure in a sampan, originally from the Emily Byrne Curtis collection, see Robert W.L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, pl. 265