Lot Essay
For a discussion of the guyuexuan group see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, pp. 328-330, fig. 192; and pp. 336-338, fig. 196
For a similar bottle bearing an iron-red guyuexuan mark see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, p. 19, fig. 16 and another, of different shape but clearly the same workshop and similarly marked, Ibid., p. 20, fig. 17
For an example of similar type, painted with prunus, peony and bamboo and bearing an iron-red guyuexuan mark, see Sotheby's New York, June 27, 1986, lot 33 (also illustrated on front cover of catalogue) and previously offered at Sotheby's New York October 3, 1980, lot 80
Another closely related bottle bearing a guyuexuan mark is illustrated by Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Oct 12-18, 1987, Catalogue, fig. 47
Another unmarked bottle, presumably from the same group, is illustrated in Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 15 Oct-26 Nov, 1977, Catalogue, fig. 56
For a similar bottle bearing an iron-red guyuexuan mark see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, p. 19, fig. 16 and another, of different shape but clearly the same workshop and similarly marked, Ibid., p. 20, fig. 17
For an example of similar type, painted with prunus, peony and bamboo and bearing an iron-red guyuexuan mark, see Sotheby's New York, June 27, 1986, lot 33 (also illustrated on front cover of catalogue) and previously offered at Sotheby's New York October 3, 1980, lot 80
Another closely related bottle bearing a guyuexuan mark is illustrated by Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles, Oct 12-18, 1987, Catalogue, fig. 47
Another unmarked bottle, presumably from the same group, is illustrated in Chinese Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 15 Oct-26 Nov, 1977, Catalogue, fig. 56