£ 6,250 (CNY 54,902) 包括佣金
14/5/2015
邦瀚斯(Bonhams)
伦敦新邦德街
Fine Chinese Art
A rare inside-painted glass horse snuff bottle Ding Erzhong ,cyclically dated guimao year (AD1903)
Ding Erzhong ,cyclically dated guimao year (AD1903)
The flattened ovoid bottle delicately painted with two elegant steeds in white and black colour ,gazing past an old gnarled tree at a distant horizon on the right ,the other side boldly painted with a rock sculpture ,vases containing blossoming flowers and a tripod censer with calamus ,inscribed at the top left on each side ,carnelian stopper with metal collar. 6.2cm (2?in) high (2).
注脚
癸卯年(AD1903)丁二仲作 玻璃内画双骏图鼻烟壶
Provenance: a European private collection and thence by descent
来源:欧洲私人收藏,后由家族传承
Illustrated: H.M.Moss ,Snuff Bottles of China ,London ,1971 ,p.145 ,pl.394 ,where the author notes that the collection was formed mostly between 1960 and 1966
著录:H.M.Moss著,《Snuff Bottles of China》,伦敦,1971年,页145,编号394,此收藏主要于1960至1966年间组成
Ding Erzhong (1865-1935) is one of the greatest acknowledged artists of snuff bottle painting in the late Qing Dynasty ,achieving a reputation parallel to the masterly Zhou Leyuan (active 1882-1893). Further to painting on snuff bottles ,Ding Erzhong was also recognised for his skills in painting ,calligraphy and carving of stones and organic materials. An exquisite example of an inside-painted ’Buddhist lion and dragon’ snuff bottle by Ding Erzhong was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms on 24 November 2012 ,The Paul Braga Collection of Snuff Bottles ,lot 15.
The horse is an auspicious motif that represents peace ,nobility and wealth. It is more common to find a figure riding the horse in Ding’s snuff bottle examples ,rather than the present lot of two horses; see an example in the Mary and George Bloch collection ,illustrated by H.Moss ,V.Graham ,K.B.Tsang ,A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection ,Vol. 4 ,Inside Painted ,Hong Kong ,2000 ,p.321 ,no.558.
The ’auspicious objects’ on the other side of the present bottle is a typical subject for Ding’s work: compare a related example from the Mary and George Bloch Collection ,ibid. ,p.323 ,no.559.