I Have Recently Found This Bottle, Can Anyone Help?

[Steven]

also a bottle in my collection

[rpfstoneman]

OK Steven,

This last one with the deer and tiger I looked at hard and long and came close to biding on it myself, but decided to go after another bottle instead.  Good to see it went to a good home, but please give us a little background on the artist and dates of the last two bottles.  The '100 dog bottle' is also a good bottle in my book.

Charll

[Steven]

Thanks Charll,

Actually George and I were all looked long and hard on this one.

The part of the reason I bid on it is the curiosity to find out the real artist,also because the subject is kind of real on that period.

The artist is  李春(li Chuan) and painted in 1978 in one bottle studio, as we know the first tier WXS's students was 1973-1978, so I think it should be one of the students of WXS, but I searched everywhere, can't find any info on this artist, the painting on the bottle is fairly good, and calligraphy is superbe during that period. its impossible that we can't find such a mature artist during that period, since not so many artist in one bottle studio at that time.

With George's help,( George was the first one bid on it,and I don't want to overbid him,so I asked him to bid higher for me), then lucky enough,  I got it with the exactly the max amount  we bid. I personally think its kind of overpaid, but I think it worth it, after I got the bottle, I asked Yuan shijia's help to find out the artist, he even asked Master Wang Guanyu who is the first tier student of WXS, Master wang confirmed that Li Chuan was WXS's first tier student, but changed his career after 80s, that is why there is no record on the database.

That is a long story of the bottle,I hope that you are not bored.

Thanks again for George's help. I will take some more pic later,It looks really good in person.

Steven
 

[Steven]

Forgot mentioned the cat bottle was painted by 多成云(duo chenyun) who is the second tier student of WXS, Duo is not any master IMO even he started a inside painting school during 90s, and his pieces is just ok  to me.

His most famous pieces are hundred kids subject. I

we can see the cats are all looked pretty much same on that bottle, but it does look cute tho, so I bought it as a sample of Duo, nothing so special.

I remembered George was looking at a cat bottle which was painted by Duo as well, not sure if I can find the post.

[Wattana]

Hi Steven,

That is the smallest bottle I have ever seen. Amazing........but I'd be afraid of swallowing it with my vitamin pills.

Tom

[Peter Bentley 彭达理]

The  smallest  bottle  I ever saw  was  by  Jiang Wenchun, who   specializes  in    tiny bottles  and horses

This   bottle  was  on  display  at  an exhibition  in Guangzhou  in 9.2009

It   was only   2  cm  x  2  cm  but  had   100 horses  painted  inside

Price  : at that  time  , was  listed  as   RMB100,000 ............

Small  is not  only  beautiful but  also  expensive 
Cheers

Peter

[Steven]

Hi Peter,

The one I posted is the same size as yours, also painted by 姜文春(Jiang wenchun),

I do appreciate the smaller beauty, but if I collect, I would prefer not that small, 5-6 cm high is perfect to me.

[George]

I remembered George was looking at a cat bottle which was painted by Duo as well, not sure if I can find the post.

Yes, but did not end up getting it... Can not find a pic of the cat side though..

Steven... That small bottle is simply amazing !!

[Steven]

Here you go,George,

I saved it on my DB. the cat side is much better painted than my bottle.

[George]

Thank you Steven..

Guess I can share one of my recent kittens bottle.. There are a couple other cat bottles as well..

Mine was painted by Wen Chang

[Steven]

Hmm, I don't remember I have seen this one before, I must have missed it.

Nice one. also the first time see a cat in a mirror. very unique subject.

[Pat - 查尚杰]

Yes! very nice George...

[Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司]

Steven,
   That bottle is amazing! Who is the artist?
Joey

[Steven]

Dear Joey,

which bottle you are asking?

[Cece]

Thank you Steven..

Guess I can share one of my recent kittens bottle.. There are a couple other cat bottles as well..

Mine was painted by Wen Chang

LOVE!!!!

All of these bottles are amazing!!!!

[Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司]

The one with all the dogs.
Joey

[Steven]

Hi Joey,

That one was Painted  by  姜文春(Jiang wenchun), same artist as Peter shared.

He specializes  in    tiny bottles as Peter mentioned. the bottle is 2cm x2cm.

Steven

[Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司]

That is amazing! I need to commission a padded box or two which will hold 15 or 20 miniatures instead of 10 regular bottles.
I have a few miniatures already; a box (or two) of them would be something.
Joey