AN INSIDE-PAINTED BROWN CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE

YE XIAOFENG, APRICOT GROVE STUDIO, BEIJING, DATED WINTER OF THE WUZI YEAR (1948); THE BOTTLE, 1760-1880

细节

AN INSIDE-PAINTED BROWN CRYSTAL SNUFF BOTTLE
YE XIAOFENG, APRICOT GROVE STUDIO, BEIJING, DATED WINTER OF THE WUZI YEAR (1948); THE BOTTLE, 1760-1880
Of flat form with an oval lip and recessed foot, painted inside with a continuous river landscape with a lion, an oryx, a tiger and a bear, inscribed in regular script, 'Made by Ye Zhongsan in a winter month in the wuzi year', with the seal Yin ('Seal'), jadeite stopper
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high

来源

Mrs. Elmer Claar
Parke Bernet New York, 29 February 1970, lot 205
Lucille Parker
Sotheby's New York, 18 March 1977, lot 52
Hugh M. Moss Ltd.

出版

Moss et. al., The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, The J & J Collection, vol. 2, no.
441

展览

Christie's New York, 1993
Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1994
Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, 1996-1997
Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997
Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002
Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 2002
National Museum of History, Taipei, 2002
International Asian Art Fair, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 2003
Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2003

拍品专文

For other inside-painted snuff bottles showing exotic animals painted by members of the Ye family, see JICSBS, Spring 1984, p. 66, fig. 188; Autumn 1984, p. 82, fig. 240; and Spring 1985, p. 99, fig. 255. All three, like the present bottle, are signed as if they were by Ye Zhongsan, but they are more likely to have been painted by Ye Xiaofeng in the family workshop. An earlier bottle from the same studio showing a larger group of animals was sold at Sotheby's New York, 23 April 1981, lot 109. Ye Xiaofeng worked alongside his father and two brothers in the family studio (The Apricot Grove Studio) for many years prior to the 1950s, when he and his surviving brother, Ye Bengqi, set up their own studio in Beijing to teach a new generation of artists.