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The Horses of Ye Zhongsan

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  • Glass

  • Flattened rounded rectangular

  • Inside-painted glass snuff bottle signed Ye Zhongsan, dated to the first month of the summer of the Dingyou Year, corresponding to 1897.
    Flattened form with flat lip and recessed, convex foot surrounded by a footrim. Painted with a continuous scene of four horses grazing beside a river under willow trees in spring, gently rolling hills in the distance, inscribed in running script:

    '
    Made at the Capital, in the first month of the summer of the cyclical year dingyou (1897) by Ye Zhongsan'

    with artist's seal Huayin.



Period

  • 1897



Size

  • Height cm. 5.9
  • Mouth cm. 0.7
  • Lip cm. 1.8



Stopper

  • Red coral with gilt collar



Provenance

  • Potter's Gallery, Vancouver
  • Meriem collection



Exhibited

  • Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, 1992
  • 41st Convention I.C.S.B.S., Dublin, October 2009
  • Palazzina delle Arti: Museo del Sigillo (Seal Museum), La Spezia - Italy, November 2010 - January 2011



Published

  • Journal ICSBS - Autunn 1982 - Vol XIV number 3 - P. 22 - Fig. 42 e 42a
  • Atomo Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles, Foti, no. 20, p. 25

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