Honourable Emulation

 
 

Ye Zhongsan, Huashi, Beijing, Fifth Month, 1899
Height: 5.35 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.47/1.50 and 1.45 cm (oval)
Stopper: jadeite; vinyl collar

Provenance:
Hugh M. Moss Ltd (1985)
Bloch Collection
Bonham's, Hong Kong, 27 May 2012, lot 82

Published:
Kleiner, Yang and Shangraw, 1994 no. 330
Moss, Graham, and Tsang 2000, no. 520
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.

 

Pale brown crystal, ink, and watercolours; with a flat lip and recessed flat foot surrounded by a protruding flat foot rim; painted with a continuous subject of a dragonfly and a cicada flying above a grass-covered rocky outcrop on which a katydid and a grasshopper crawl, with a group of five minnows swimming in a pond beside which a cabbage grows, inscribed Jihai liuyue xie, ying Zhonglin erxiong daren qingwan, Ye Zhongsan zuo 己亥榴月寫，應仲麟二兄大人清玩，葉仲三作 (‘Executed by Ye Zhongsan in the Fifth Month of the year jihai for the pure enjoyment of Zhonglin, the honourable second elder brother’), followed by one seal of the artist, huayin 畫印 (‘painting seal’), in negative seal script

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Alexander Whittaker