Winter Guest
Ye Zhongsan, The Apricot Grove Studio, Chongwen district, Beijing, winter 1922.
Height: 7.1 cm
Mouth/lip: .52/2.05 cm
Stopper: coral; silver collar
Provenance:
Case Antiques Auctions, 18 June 201, lot 3071
Hugh Moss (HK)
Transparent, brown crystal suffused with icy flaws, ink and water-colours; with a slightly concave lip and recessed, flat oval foot surrounded by a protruding, convex oval footrim; painted on the inside with a continuous scene illustrating a scene from Sanguo Yanyi, (The Romance of the Three Kingdoms), showing Huang Chengyan riding a donkey, followed by his attendant on foot holding a gourd of wine on a pole over his shoulder as he approaches a farewell scene at a country residence where Liu Bei is bidding farewell to Zhuge Jun, while a third figure, probably Zhang Fei, holds his horse, all in a snowy landscape, inscribed with a poem in draft script followed by the date and signature, 癸亥冬月葉仲三作 I Guihai dongyue Ye Zhongsan zuo (‘Executed by Ye Zhongsan in winter of the guihai year), followed by one seal of the artist, 印yin (seal)
