THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL BOTTLE

細節
AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL BOTTLE
SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN, YE FAMILY AT THE APRICOT GROVE STUDIO AND DATED WUXU YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1898, AND PAINTED AT THE CAPITAL CHANG YANG (9TH DAY, 9TH MONTH)

Of rounded rectangular shape, painted on one side with a Mongolian pony on a grassy bank in a river landscape, and on the other with piled sheets of paintings, rubbings and torn calligraphy, the interior surface of the bottle treated to imitate parchment, some inclusions in the crystal
2¼in. (5.7cm.) high, stopper
together with a fine watercolor by Malcolm Golding (2)
來源
Hugh M. Moss

拍品專文

The reverse side includes paintings of Tang rubbings, one depicts the rubbing of the famous Tang stele Jai Cheng Gong by one of the four master calligraphers of the early Tang Dynasty, Ou Yanxun. For the complete rubbing see Jin Ching Gong Li Quan Ming, Beijing, Wenwu press, 1976. Another depicts a Tang rubbing from Du Mu, another poem

For an example, also dated 1898, depicting a Mongolian pony on one side and a figure poling a sampan see Sotheby's, London, Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles, April 24, 1989, lot 414 and also illustrated by Clare Lawrence, "London Auction Review", I.C.S.B.S., Journal, 1989, pl. 27. For an example by Ye dated 1896 depicting a Mongolian pony, see Hugh M. Moss, "The Yeh Family", The Snuff Bottle Collector, No. 7, 1973, p. 16, pl. 1, later illustrated by Hugh Moss, Victor Graham and Ka Bo Tsang, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, vol. II, New York, 1993, pp. 707-708, no. 432, where the authors discuss the subject of the pony and the style of the painting following that of Zhou Leyuan