A RARE INSIDE-PAINTED DOUBLE ROCK CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLEZhang Baotian Signed Baotian and dated renxu year, corresponding to 1892 Each section of slender rectangular cylinder shape, one finely painted with a scholarly figure in a wooded landscape beneath a 'v'-formation of flying geese on one side and a fisherman in a boat on the other, the conjoined bottle painted with a figure riding an ox-plough in a lake landscape on one side and a winter tree on the other; stoppers. 2in (5.2cm) high Please note this bottle should read: Signed Zhou Leyuan and dated Renchen year corresponding to 1892. 壬戌年（1892） 張葆田 水晶内畫山水人物雙連鼻烟壺 Provenance: Mrs. D. Berwald, London Robert Kleiner, 25 October 2004 Exhibited: International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Convention, New York, 5-9 November 2013, no. 104 For another Zhang Baotian bottle of more regular shape and also dated to 1892 depicting figures in vast landscapes and with a lenghty discussion of the artists aims in such a depiction, see see Humphrey K.F. Hui, Lai Suk Yee and Peter Y.K. Lam, Inkplay in Microcosm, Inside-painted Chinese Snuff Bottles, The Humphrey K.F. Hui Collection , Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002, no. 94. For an inside-painted example dated to the preceding year, 1891, painted with a figural landscape, see , New York, 9 September 2019, lot 143.