The Horses of Ye Zhongsan
The Collection > Inside Painted
- 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
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