Message #48312

[bokaba]

Hi Giovanni,

Thank you for sharing your amber colored bottle. As far as I know, the signature is that of Yan Yutien (閻玉田). Here is a clear bottle painted by Yutian with a traveler and camel from the Crane Collection (dated c. 1895). I believe our bottles are a bit later, perhaps 1900-1910 (Yutian was believed to paint from about 1888 to 1910; Steven tells me colored glass was not popular until at least 1900). Some also claim Zhou Leyuan was his master and he signed his master's name on many of his earliest bottles.

http://www.thecranecollection.com/the-collection/inside-painted/middle-school/?tx_ttproducts_pi1%5BbackPID%5D=60&tx_ttproducts_pi1%5Bproduct%5D=296&cHash=b358ef4ef9

http://snuffbottle.smfforfree.com/index.php?topic=35.0