An inside-painted glass snuff bottle


Beijing School, late Qing/Republic periodPainted in ink and muted color on one side with a still life theme featuring a rock sculpture surrounded by vessels containing blooming branches, a planter with acorus grass, and a teapot, the reverse depicting a boy playing a flute on a stretching branch of a gnarled pine tree overhanging a river; unsigned.2 1/2in (6.4cm) high
|ProvenanceLaurene Souksi, France, 2007The still life presented on this bottle has an austere elegance and is very much of scholarly taste. The subject and applied color palette often appeared in Zhou Leyuan's work. It is unusual, however, to see an inside-painted work as of such fine quality as the present example free from any inscriptions. It is possible that the bottle was painted by one of Zhou Leyuan's accomplished students or followers. 晚清/民國 京派 佚名 玻璃內畫鼻煙壺