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Lot Essay
The inscription includes "painted at the capital" followed by two seals, hua and yin.
The painting of this bottle is stylistically close to that of the first master of the Middle school, Zhou Leyuan, whose favorite subjects were landscapes in the classical style. The style and color scheme on this bottle appears close to the artist Wang Hui, one of the early Qing painters.
See Rachelle R. Holden, ibid, where the author notes "Looking down onto the rooftop of the large residence that graces one side of the bottle, we know at once that this is the home of one of the literati, secluded in the mountains, away from political strife, a place where he can write poetry, paint or simply be at peace with the world. Ye painted certain of his trees by using blue-green paint and then scratching through it with a bamboo point to give the foliage texture. Here, to separate the foreground tree from the background tree, he has scratched out more than usual to achieve the effect of pale foliage against dark. He has then continued with the upper section of the background tree, lightening it considerably and placing the emphasis on the distant mountains and mist rather than on the solid foliage of the foreground trees that would have existed before he scratched away the color. This is as fine and imposing a landscape as Ye ever did. It is also unusual in the mixture of blue and green pigments, which give it a palette that is distinctive, albeit subtly different from the one he usually used."
The painting of this bottle is stylistically close to that of the first master of the Middle school, Zhou Leyuan, whose favorite subjects were landscapes in the classical style. The style and color scheme on this bottle appears close to the artist Wang Hui, one of the early Qing painters.
See Rachelle R. Holden, ibid, where the author notes "Looking down onto the rooftop of the large residence that graces one side of the bottle, we know at once that this is the home of one of the literati, secluded in the mountains, away from political strife, a place where he can write poetry, paint or simply be at peace with the world. Ye painted certain of his trees by using blue-green paint and then scratching through it with a bamboo point to give the foliage texture. Here, to separate the foreground tree from the background tree, he has scratched out more than usual to achieve the effect of pale foliage against dark. He has then continued with the upper section of the background tree, lightening it considerably and placing the emphasis on the distant mountains and mist rather than on the solid foliage of the foreground trees that would have existed before he scratched away the color. This is as fine and imposing a landscape as Ye ever did. It is also unusual in the mixture of blue and green pigments, which give it a palette that is distinctive, albeit subtly different from the one he usually used."