The Rocky Bank

 
 

Zhou Leyuan, Lotus-root Fragrance Studio, Xuannan, Beijing, spring 1892
Height: 6.03 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.6/1.5 cm
Stopper: glass, carved with a coiled chi dragon; glass collar

Provenance:
Robert Kleiner
Robert and Molly Hsieh Collection
Sotheby’s, New York, 23 March 2004, lot 194

Published:
Chinese Art Auction Records, 2005Antiques,1/1/04 – 12/31/04 (Taipei), 8-18

 

Colourless glass, ink, and watercolours; with a concave lip and recessed convex foot surrounded by a protruding convex foot rim; painted inside with a continuous scene of a rocky, grassy bank above a pond with three fan-tailed goldfish, with a katydid crawling on the bank, with various foliage and a cabbage growing nearby, inscribed, Renchen chunri xie yu jingshi Ouxiang zhai, Zhou Leyuan 壬辰春日寫於京師藕香齋,周樂元 (‘Written by Zhou Leyuan at the Lotus-root Fragrance Studio in the capital on a spring day of the renchen year’) with one seal of the artist, yuanyin 元印 (‘seal of yuan’) in negative seal script

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