**AN ENAMELED WHITE GLASS MEIPING-SHAPED SNUFF BOTTLE

YE BENGQI, BEIJING, 1930-1940

Details

**AN ENAMELED WHITE GLASS MEIPING-SHAPED SNUFF BOTTLE
YE BENGQI, BEIJING, 1930-1940
With tapering high-shouldered body, flat lip and recessed foot surrounded by a footrim, finely painted allover with a pair of birds and a butterfly in flight above a garden scene with a pierced rock amidst pink poppies, bamboo and blue and purple asters, all above a formal ruyi band at the base and below a bead-hung petal lappet band on the shoulder and a band of leaf tips on the neck, with an apocryphal, blue-enameled Qianlong four-character mark in regular script, tourmaline stopper
1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Hugh Moss Ltd.

Lot Essay

For a lengthy discussion of this group of enameled wares, produced by the Ye family at Beijing, see H. Moss, "The Apricot Grove Studio, Part III: Enamelled Glass Wares", JICSBS, 1985, pp. 116-30, where similar examples are illustrated. See also Moss, Graham, Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle. The J & J Collection, no. 205 for a discussion of Ye Bengqi's talents as a copyist.

This bottle represents Ye Bengqi at his best, dating it to the 1930s

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