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Lot Essay
The inscription may be translated as follow:
'A scholarly plaything for my good friend Bao Ting
In the autumn month of the Xin Mao year [corresponding to 1891]
Made at the Capital City
Zhou Leyuan.'
Zhou Leyuan, the founder of the popular Beijing school of painting, was active between 1879 and 1893. Every artist of the first phase of the school owed a considerable debt to Zhou, and most began their careers by copying his style and signing his name; some even appear to have devoted most of their careers to producing copies of his work.
See three other bottles painted by the artist and dated from 1885, 1886 and 1888-91 with a similar inside-painted landscape and typical montains, illustrated in Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection, pl.407, pl.409 and pl.414.
'A scholarly plaything for my good friend Bao Ting
In the autumn month of the Xin Mao year [corresponding to 1891]
Made at the Capital City
Zhou Leyuan.'
Zhou Leyuan, the founder of the popular Beijing school of painting, was active between 1879 and 1893. Every artist of the first phase of the school owed a considerable debt to Zhou, and most began their careers by copying his style and signing his name; some even appear to have devoted most of their careers to producing copies of his work.
See three other bottles painted by the artist and dated from 1885, 1886 and 1888-91 with a similar inside-painted landscape and typical montains, illustrated in Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection, pl.407, pl.409 and pl.414.