Travelling in Autumn Mountains

 
 

Zhou Leyuan, Lotus-root Fragrance Studio, Xuannan, Beijing, circa 1889
Height: 6.18 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.57/1.54 cm
Stopper: glass, carved with a coiled chi dragon; glass collar

Provenance:
Hugh Moss Collection
Robert Hall
Pamela R. Lessing Friedman Collection
Robert Hall, November 2005

Published:
Friedman 1990, no.112
Hall 2005, no. 105

 

Colourless glass, ink, and watercolours; with a concave lip and recessed convex foot surrounded by a protruding flat foot rim; painted on the inside with a continuous autumn landscape scene with two scholars, one of them pointing towards a small group of three houses nestling in trees on a riverbank approached by another scholar, accompanied by his young attendant, with clumps of pine and other trees and a distant waterfall emerging from mist beneath the peaks of distant mountains, inscribed on one main side with the title Qiushan xinglü 秋山行旅 (‘Travelling in autumn mountains)’, and on the other, Yu Xuannan fangshe 於宣南房舍 (‘In the rooms at Xuannan’), Zhou Leyuan zuo 周樂元作 (‘Made by Zhou Leyuan’) followed by one seal of the artist 印 yin  (seal).

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Alexander Whittaker