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
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