ANOTHER PROPERTY
AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS BOTTLE

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AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS BOTTLE
SIGNED GUI XIANGGU AND BEARING THE CYCLICAL DATE DING YU, CORRESPONDING TO 1897

Painted with a bird on a winter branch on one side, a mountain stream in the background, and with a stag hunt on the reverse, neck chips, stopper

Lot Essay

The inscription reads "The second month of summer in the Dingyu year, in the style of Master Nantian"

Gui's bottles are quite rare and his finest works seem to date to 1897. He appears to have worked between 1895 and 1900. As in many inside-painted bottles the subject is borrowed from earlier masters