Am I missing something Bill. Not seeing any signature on my bottle here.
Maybe the piece of what looks like a signature to you from the above pics at a different angle is this ?
What I sure do find super interesting an am extremely grateful to you for Bill, is the following from your site !
I just have to bring it here for the record as it sure fits this bottle.
"Yong Shou T'ian's inside painting career started in 1898 and ended in 1926.
He was fond of painting figures as well as famous generals riding on horses,
fighting with each other in famous battlefields. He was fond of large-sized bottles
which are easy to paint with many figures."
Not much is known about Yong Shou T'ien. He is considered a Middle Period
painter, a general classification of painters who painted in the late 1800's through
the mid 1900's.
A couple of the bottles in this collection use "Simplified" Chinese in the signature.
While some form of simplified writing was in use duringYong Shou T'ien's painting
period from 1898 to 1926, this form of writing did not become widely used until the
Cultural Revolution in the attempt to unify Chinese writing and to destroy much of
Chinese tradition. Even though these bottles are painted in traditional Yong Shou T'ien
style and in larger, more rounded bottles not often used by other painters, if is only fair
to say that they may not all have been painted by Yong.
Also for the record, and for other members, guests, and lurkers to the forum to see is the perfect resemblance in style to the
Yong Shou T'ien bottles Bill shares on his site.
After viewing the bottles within Bill's site, I just can't help but feel this bottle was quite likely was painted by the same artist.
I had a good size smile on the overlay bottle just purchased when it arrived, but I gotta tell ya.., I have a big smile running from ear to ear on this one
