Atomo Collection

• Glass
  
  
• Rounded rectangular
  
  
• Inside painted with two dragons clashing from sky to sea. On the other side two phoenix perched on a branch, with an inscription:
  
  'Written on the second day of mid winter (eleven month) of the Jia Wu yaer (1894)
  
  Drawn at the Capital city
  By Zhou Leyuan'.
  
  Really the snuff bottle is just in the style of Zhou Leyuan.

Period

1894 - 1919


Size

• Height cm. 6.4
• Mouth cm. 0.6
• Lip cm. 1.6

Stopper

• Glass with green ring

Provenance

• Charles V. Swain collection
• Christie's Paris - 10 June 2009 - Lot n. 110

Exhibited

• Palazzina delle Arti: Museo del Sigillo (Seal Museum), La Spezia - Italy, November 2010 - January 2011

Comparison

• "The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin - Chinese Snuff Bottles", Michael C Hughes, no. 202 p. 260