Good News
Ding Erzhong, Beijing, Eighth Month 1899
Height: 6 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.68/1.65 cm
Stopper: tourmaline; gilt-silver collar
Provenance:
Hugh M. Moss Ltd, 1976
Guo’an Collection (no. 264)
Private Japanese collection
Bonham’s, Hong Kong, 21 May 2009, lot 1983
Published:
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.
Glass, ink, and watercolours; with a concave lip and protruding rectangular foot with a gutter to create a slightly protruding rectangular foot rim; painted on the inside on one main side with a bird perched on a the branch of a shrub beneath a willow tree, with other flowering shrubs and a perforated natural rock formation, inscribed in running script Jihai zhongqiu hou shiri ni Wang Wang’an zhi fa Erzhong 己亥中秋後十日擬王忘庵意二仲 (‘Erzhong, ten days after the mid-autumn festival in the year jihai, emulating the style of Wang Wang’an’), with one seal of the artist, Yu 庾and on the other with a hunter on a galloping horse on the bank of a lake or wide river with shrubs, the rising sun in the distance beyond a range of mountains, inscribed in clerical script with the title Xibao tu 喜報圖 (Picture of Good News) followed in running script by Jihai qiu bayue fang Songren fa 己亥秋八月仿宋人法二仲 (‘Erzhong, following the style of the Song painters in the Eighth Month of the year jihai’), followed by one seal of the artist, Erzhong二仲
