Lot 88
88
ANOTHER PROPERTY
AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS BOTTLE

Details
AN INSIDE-PAINTED GLASS BOTTLE
SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, THE YE FAMILY AT THE APRICOT GROVE STUDIO, DATED DING ZHOU YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1937

Painted with a continuous scene depicting numerous children at play in a school room, the master asleep at his table whilst his pupils frolic, the bottle dedicated to Yun Zhang, stopper, cloth stand and box

Lot Essay

This bottle is painted in the style of the early works of Ye Zhongsan, circa 1896. For an example of an almost identical scene but in the lighter palette of Ye Zhongsan, the elder, see Robert W. L. Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Mary and George Bloch, Hong Kong, 1987, col. pl. 272