Lot 33
33
An Unusual Inside-Painted Amber Bottle
An Unusual Inside-Painted Amber Bottle

SIGNED ZHOU LEYUAN AND DATED XIN MAO YEAR CORRESPONDING TO 1891, BUT PROBABLY THE YE FAMILY AT THE APRICOT GROVE STUDIO

Details
An Unusual Inside-Painted Amber Bottle
Signed Zhou Leyuan and dated xin mao year corresponding to 1891, but probably the Ye family at the Apricot Grove Studio
Of rounded rectangular shape finely painted with a Mongolian pony below pine before hills with streams to one side, and a mountainous river landscape with pine to the other with a lone figure in a boat below the inscription, stopper
26in. (6.5cm.) high
Literature
JICSBS, Autumn, 1984, Hugh M. Moss, The Apricot Grove Studio, Part II, The Works of the Ye Family, figs. 249 and 249a.

Lot Essay

For a discussion of Ye Zhongsan working in the style of Zhou Leyuan, see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Hong Kong, 1993, vol. II, p. 707, no. 432. The bottle illustrated depicts a similarly painted Mongolian pony on a river bank

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