Zhou Leyuan, 1886One main face painted with a single figure in a boat near pine on a grassy shore with a mountain backdrop all below a descriptive inscription, signature and seal, the other side with one carp amidst fronds looking up at another swimming amongst smaller fish, all alongside the cyclical date, a second signature and seal. 2 3/8in (5.8cm) high, stopper,转到 Chinese Works of Art Go
注脚:1886年 周樂元作 玻璃內畫山水及魚樂圖鼻煙壺For two other examples with a river landscape on one side, a much-repeated subject, but one which seldom had the appearance of commercialism in Zhou Leyuan's hand, see Humphrey K.F. Hui, Lai Suk Yee and Peter Y.K. Lam, Inkplay in Microcosm, Inside-painted Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Humphrey K.F. Hui Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002, no.10, and like our example dated to 1886; and Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 4, Part I, Inside Painted, pp. 136-137, no. 482, dated to 1890.For an undated example attributed to between 1886 and 1869, see Bonhams, New York, The Linda Riddell Hoffman Collection, 22 March 2011, lot 8. It is painted with a fisherman on one side and mossy rockwork on the other. For another painted with fish beneath lotus to one side and dated to 1892, see Bonhams, New York, 9 September 2019, lot 104. For another example dated 1890 with a figural landscape to one side and fish to the other, see Christie's New York, 18/19 September 2014, lot 1202.