Bengqi’s Chicks

 
 

Ye Bengqi, Apricot Grove Studio, Beijing, Second Month, 1946
Height: 6.16 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.59/1.99 cm
Stopper: carnelian; bronze collar

Provenance:
Charles V. Swain
Christie’s Interiors, New York, 1 July 2008, lot 761

Published:
JICSBS, 16/3 (Autumn 1984), 82, fig. 239a
Hugh Moss and Stuart Sargent, The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection of Snuff Bottles. Part Two, Non-Imperial Influence over the Snuff Bottle Arts.

 

Colourless glass, ink, and watercolours; of rounded-rectangular form with a cylindrical neck, concave lip, and recessed convex, oval foot surrounded by a protruding flat, oval foot rim; painted on the inside with a continuous garden scene with ornamental natural rock formations, roses, day-lilies, and another flower with a foreground grassy ground upon which a hen watches her five chicks, inscribed in slightly cursive regular script above Bingxu xingyue Ye Zhongsan zuo 丙戌杏月葉仲三作 (‘Made by Ye Zhongsan in the Second Month of the bingxu year’) with one seal of the artist yin (seal).

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Alexander Whittaker