Lot 202
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[PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION] GROUP OF FOUR CHINESE INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
LIU SHOUBEN (1943-2022); TANG ZICHUAN (AC. CA. 1915); AND ZHOU SHAOYUAN (AC. CA. 1900)
Auction: 06 November 2026 from 10:00 GMT
Description
劉守本 玻璃內畫百蝶圖、湯子川 淞隱漫錄圖 及 周少元 1908年（戊申） 聊齋誌圖 與 1905年（乙巳） 山水高士荷塘圖鼻煙壺（共四件）
comprising: one ‘one hundred butterflies’ bottle, titled on one side, signed ‘Shouben’ on the reverse; one ‘Songyin Manlu’ (Rambling Records of a Reclusive by the Song River) bottle, one side painted with a scene from ‘Gong Xianluan’, reverse from ‘Wu Qiongxian’, signed ‘Tang Zichuan’, with a pale green stopper; one painted with the scene ‘Xiao Mei’ from Strange Tales from Liaozhai, dated to Wu Shen year, corresponding to 1908AD; and the last painted to one side with a lotus pond, reverse with a shanshui landscape, dated Yi Si year, corresponding to 1905AD, both with red stoppers and signed ‘Zhou Shaoyuan’ (4)
Dimensions
largest: 7cm high without stopper
Provenance
Private English collection, London; inherited from the artist Lottie Davis, by repute gifted to her by the Office of the Chargé d’Affaires in Beijing in the mid-20th century.
英格蘭私人收藏，倫敦；繼承自藝術家洛蒂・戴維斯（Lottie Davis），據傳其於20世紀中葉由北京大使館贈予。
Footnote
Compare an inside-painted glass ‘butterflies’ snuff bottle, by Liu Shouben, offered at Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2024, lot 243. For an inside-painted glass snuff bottle, by Tang Zichuan, sold at Bonhams New York, 9 September 2019, lot 117. And a comparable inside-painted glass snuff bottle, by Zhou Shaoyuan, previously in the Mary And George Bloch Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 May 2013, lot 151.