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Lot Essay
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.
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.