Beschreibung:

AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK-CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLEZhou Leyuan, cyclically dated to the Wuzi year corresponding to 1888 and of the period
Of elegant pear-shape rising from a short oval foot to a tall cylindrical neck, finely painted with riverscape scene depicting two scholars gazing at the landscape as a fisherman crosses the stream with a sampan, signature and seal of the artist reading Yin, stopper. 6.3cm (2 1/2in) high. (2).Footnotes1888年夏（戊子年） 周樂元 水晶內畫山水人物圖鼻煙壺
Provenance: Count Kurt Graf Blücher von Wahlstatt (1901-1975)
Hugh M. Moss Ltd., Hong Kong, April 1969
Published and Illustrated: Hugh M. Moss, Snuff Bottles of China, London, 1971, p.141, no.363.
來源：Kurt Graf Blücher von Wahlstatt伯爵 (1901-1975)
香港古董商Hugh M. Moss，1969年4月
著錄：Hugh M. Moss，《Snuff Bottles of China》，倫敦，1971年，141頁，編號363
The founder of the popular Beijing school of painting, Zhou Leyuan's career spanned the period 1881 to 1893. Every single artist of the first phase of the school owed a considerable debt to Zhou. See a related inside-painted glass snuff bottle by Zhou Leyuan, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Snuff Bottles, Hong Kong, 2003, p.268, no.405.
See a related inside-painted crystal snuff bottle, by Zhou Leyuan, dated to 1885, which was sold at Christie's New York, 30 March 2005, lot 77. See also another related inside-painted glass snuff bottle, Zhou Leyuan, dated 1890, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 26 May 2013, lot 145.