A Chinese Inside Painted Glass Snuff Bottle, Landscape with Figures, 10BY
The translucent frosted-white glass snuff bottle has a classic elongated ovoid form with a flat base, decorated on both sides with fine interior painting of landscape with figures. One side depicts two robed scholars seated in a pavilion beside a river, with a small boat, a lone traveller, pine trees, rocky cliffs and layered distant mountains, with vertical calligraphic script. The reverse shows a similar scene of a waterside pavilion with figures, framed by pine trees, flowering branches, rocks and distant mountain ranges, also bearing inscribed calligraphy. It is topped with a polished bright red domed stopper. Height 7.5 cm, width 4 cm.
Condition
Items are sourced from an estate.This is a no-reserve auction.
The translucent frosted-white glass snuff bottle has a classic elongated ovoid form with a flat base, decorated on both sides with fine interior painting of landscape with figures. One side depicts two robed scholars seated in a pavilion beside a river, with a small boat, a lone traveller, pine trees, rocky cliffs and layered distant mountains, with vertical calligraphic script. The reverse shows a similar scene of a waterside pavilion with figures, framed by pine trees, flowering branches, rocks and distant mountain ranges, also bearing inscribed calligraphy. It is topped with a polished bright red domed stopper. Height 7.5 cm, width 4 cm.
Condition
Items are sourced from an estate.This is a no-reserve auction.
