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The bottle also bears the name Ou Xiang Zhai (Fragrant Lotus Root Studio) and the seal Yuan Yin
For another example similarly inscribed and dated to the summer of 1892, see Robert W.L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Catalogue, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1994, pl. 392, no. 321 and another inscribed with a variant of the same studio name, Ou Xiang Shuxian, and dated 1890, but using a more blue palette, Ibid., p. 387, no. 316
For a similar bottle depicting a lone 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; and another sold Christie's, New York, December 3, 1992, lot 401 and illustrated in the I.C.S.B.S. Journal, 1974, vol. 6, no. 2
For another example similarly inscribed and dated to the summer of 1892, see Robert W.L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Catalogue, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1994, pl. 392, no. 321 and another inscribed with a variant of the same studio name, Ou Xiang Shuxian, and dated 1890, but using a more blue palette, Ibid., p. 387, no. 316
For a similar bottle depicting a lone 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; and another sold Christie's, New York, December 3, 1992, lot 401 and illustrated in the I.C.S.B.S. Journal, 1974, vol. 6, no. 2