λ TWO CHINESE INTERIOR-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES

λ TWO CHINESE INTERIOR-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
20TH CENTURY

One dated the renchen year, painted with a landscape scene and insects amidst vegetables; the other decorated with a bird and insects, each with a signature of Zhou Leyuan but probably by his followers, 6.8cm and 5.8cm. (2)

WITHOUT RESERVE
本拍品不設底價。

Provenance: from an English private collection, acquired in the 1950s and 1960s.

仿周樂元玻璃內畫鼻煙壺
來源：英國私人收藏，購於1950年代至1960年代。

Zhou Leyuan, a prolific late 19th-century interior miniature artist and founder of the popular Beijing School of Snuff Bottle Painting, was active from 1879 to 1893 during the Guangxu reign of the Qing dynasty. Every artist from the school's first phase owed a significant debt to Zhou, with many beginning their careers by imitating his style and even signing his name; some appeared to dedicate much of their careers to reproducing his work.