A RARE SIGNED YIXING BOTTLE
A RARE SIGNED YIXING BOTTLE

SIGNED ZHONG JI, 1770-1850

細節
A RARE SIGNED YIXING BOTTLE
Signed Zhong Ji, 1770-1850
Of flattened hexagonal oviform shape, one side carved with poetry reading yue ming liu xia mei ren lai, followed by the artist's name, Zhong Ji, the reverse side plain, stopper
26in. (5.8cm.)
來源
Arthur Gadsby Collection
Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 2 May 1991, lot 133

拍品專文

The poetic inscription can be read as:
A beauty comes to us from the forest in the morning light

For a Yixing bottle of similar hexagonal shape but slip-painted with a landscape scene, formerly in the Ko Collection (Tianjin, 1942) see Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, Tokyo, 1993, p. 421, no. 252; and another painted with prunus sold Christie's, London, The Edmund F. Dwyer Collection, 12 Ocotber 1987, p. 114 and formerly in the Harriet E. Huntington Collection.

For another Yixing bottle of smaller and one of rounded shape signed Erquan, see Robert Hall, Chinese Snuff Bottles, London, 1987, pp. 132-133, no. 66.