The Strange Story of Huangying
Ye Zhongsan, Huashi, Beijing, spring 1899
Height: 4.92 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.50/1.43 cm
Stopper: aquamarine
Provenance:
Virginia Mead
Robert Kleiner, December 2011
Hugh Moss (HK)
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.
Crystal, ink, and watercolours; with a flat lip and recessed flat, oval foot surrounded by a protruding flat, oval foot rim; painted on the inside with an illustration of the story of Huangying黄英from the Liaozhi zhiyi聊齋志異showing the male characters Ma Caizi 馬才子 and Tao Yuanming 陶淵明 in the garden of Huangying’s home, a stone table set with a pot and two cups and stools, while Huangying is seen on the other main side through the window beside a pine tree, cooking, the side with the two men inscribed with the title in clerical script, Huang Ying, followed in cursive script by Jihai zhongchun Ye Zhongsan zuo己亥仲春葉仲三作 (‘Made by Ye Zhongsan in the mid-spring of the jihai year’) followed by one token seal, yin印 (‘seal’)
