AN INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL ‘SWALLOWS’ SNUFF BOTTLE
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1892
AN INSIDE-PAINTED CRYSTAL ‘SWALLOWS’ SNUFF BOTTLE, BY ZHOU LEYUAN, DATED TO THE RENCHEN YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1892 Inscriptions: To one side, signed ‘Zhou Leyuan’ and dated ‘In the year of Renchen [corresponding to 1892], Lunar September, Beijing’.
Well hollowed, the rounded rectangular body supported on a short oval foot ring and rising to a cylindrical neck. Superbly painted with a continuous landscape depicting prunus trees growing amidst peonies and grassy mounds, each tree trunk shown on a different side with the blossoming branches extending to both sides, with swallows in flight.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material (listing wording)
- crystal
- Dimensions or weight (listing wording)
- Height including stopper 65 mm. Diameter neck 13 mm and mouth 5 mm.
Identification
- Source note
- Auction-house description published on Invaluable. Attribution and measurements are the auction house’s statements about the photographed example; independent type authentication remains research required.
- Listing object ID
- 199790096
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Independent confirmation of type attribution and auction-house statements remains research required.