Bottle ID: 808

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YE ZHONGSAN, DATED, WINTER SCENE

Date: 1908

Height: 66 mm

A glass snuff bottle, of rectangular form with a cylindrical neck and an oval footrim, each side with raised panels, painted on the inside using ink and watercolors with on one main side a scene of a couple being greeted at the door of a thatched building by two figures, the reverse with a winter snow scene of a lady wearing a wide-brimmed hat with her attendant carrying a vase of blossoming prunus branches, one narrow side with a dragonfly flitting above lotus leaves, flowers and pods, the reverse side with a swallow in flight above flowering peonies, the rectangular base painted with a fan-tailed carp and minnows swimming among aquatic waterweeds, signed Ye Zhongsan with one red seal and dated. 

 

Provenance:

Bonhams New York, September 19, 2022, lot 23
Joan and Ted Dorf Collection, no. 312
Eldred's Auction Gallery, 2000
Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH, 1941 (Donation)
Mattoon M. Curtis collection of snuff bottles and snuff boxes

PUBLISHED

Mattoon M. Curtis, The Book of Snuff and Snuff Boxes, 1935, fig. 34.d.

EXHIBITED
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD., September 30–December 9, 2018

 

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