Bottle ID: 759

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YONG SHOUTIAN, GLASS, SCHOLARS IN A LANDSCAPE

Date: 1915

Height: 60 mm

Glass, of bulbous ovoid form with a cylindrical neck and a neatly carved oval footrim, painted on the inside using ink and watercolors and decorated on one main side with two scholars, one holding the trunk of a blossoming sapling, seated at leisure under a tree beside large rockwork, the reverse continuing the scene within a similar natural landscape setting  with a scholar seated at a low table writing calligraphy, his attendant kneeling to one side, signed Yong Shoutian and dated.
Attributed to Beijing

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 738
Stevens Bob. C. The Collectors Book of Snuff Bottles, 1976, p. 246, no. 908
 

Provenance:

Joseph Baruch Silver
Robert Kleiner, 2003

Little is known about Yong Shoutian. He is known as the "warrior" artist because of the numerous depictions of Cao Cao fighting Ma Chao at the battle of Jiameng Pass, the majority of which are painted inside larger bottles than the example shown here. There has been discussion among present day collectors that this group of larger bottles, where the work is not as fine as in this example, may have been painted by Liu Qiao, one of Yong's students. However there is no confirmation for this, and further research into this minor artist who could produce fine work on occasion, needs to be done.

 

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