TWO INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES LATE QING DYNASTY

each of compressed flask form, the first depicting an eagle and a badger in a grove, the reverse with a rock, prunus, chrysanthemum and apples, signed Yan Yutian with one seal and cyclical date mark corresponding to 1895; the second painted with a scholar with his qin traveling through a mountainous landscape, the reverse with birds above a hillside growing chrysanthemums, the side with Yan Yutian seal mark, stoppers (4)

The 'scholar' bottle: Collection of Mary Morrison, Vancouver.