Bottle ID: 767

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DING GUILING, FIGURES IN LANDSCAPE

Date: Circa 1960

Height: 62 mm

Glass, of slender rectangular 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 a woman leaning on a fence, her fan in one hand, beside rockwork and bamboo, the reverse with a scholar leaning on the balustrade of a second floor terracem with overhanging willow, his attendant beside him, signed Ding Hong (Ding Guiling).

Similar Examples:

Crane Collection no. 730

Provenance:

The Collection of Joseph Baruch Silver, Republic of Ireland

 

During the 1960s and 1970s in Beijing, four inside-painted artists were taught how to paint inside bottles by the Ye Family in a successful effort to continue the tradition started by Ye Zhongsan at the turn of the twentieth century. Two of those four artists were male - Wang Xisan (who subsequently moved to Hebei) and Liu Shouben. The other two were female - Ye Shuyin (the daughter of Ye Bengqi) and Ding Guiling. Sadly works by Ding Guiling are few and far between as she died at an early age.

 

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