THREE INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES
The first: Circa 1900
The second: 1895-1910
The third: Circa 1900
The first with a seal reading Yutian to one narrow side, of small rounded rectangular shape painted with two swallows above flowering branches and bamboo to one side and long-tailed fish amidst fronds to the other; the second, of miniature rounded rectangular shape, unsigned, painted on one side with small butterflies and large dragonflies above begonia in the Ma Shaoxuan style, the other side with prunus and bamboo; the third, signed and sealed Yan Yutian, of rounded rectangular shape and painted in sepia, salmon, brown and black tones with seated figures and a mountain backdrop with a waterfall, the reverse side with a bear below a hawk seated in the branches of a tree.
2 3/8in (6.2cm); 1 1/2in (4cm); 2 1/4in (6cm) high (3).
Footnotes:
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.

Provenance:
The first:
Robert C. Eldred, 22 August 1991, lot 53

The second:
Robert C. Eldred, 26 August 1993, lot 124

The third:
Robert C. Eldred, 27 August 1992, lot 229

Exhibited
The third:
International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 50.

For an example by Yan Yutian dated 1895 and also depicting swallows to one side, see Moss, Graham and Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Mary and George Bloch Collection, Vol. 4, Part 2, Inside-Painted, Hong Kong, 2000, pp.468-469, no. 617.