A few of my bottles

[Ruthven]

Hi,

New here so hope this is okay to put here.

This is the very first bottle I got.. My OH got fed up with me hanging onto  those little plastic bottles that you get in hotels, and when we saw this in a second hand shop in Chichester he said as I had a bit of a ''thing'' about tiny bottles why not get a real glass bottle rather than a silly plastic one.  I bought this about 1999 or so.  This glass is very light, and even a bit wavy as if blown rather than moulded.  Nothing fancy by anyones standards but I liked it and as it was the first snuff bottle I had ever seen I am still very fond of my grumpy tiger.




At the same time I bought this one.



Just for interest sake I would love to know what the writing says, is the plump lady and the very cross-looking man from a  folk tale?

My favourite is this one I bought from China.




Could anyone tell me who the Artist is?  I think the artist must have been furious when he/she got that slight bit of red paint onto the neck hackles of the white cockerel, resulting in a slight pinky tone. But I love it anyway, I keep chickens and whoever painted it really knew their subject

Thanks
Frances

[Steven]

Hi Frances,

You are right, Your rooster bottle is very similar painted as the one on Zhang Tiesan studio.

the script on your bottle can be read
" The picture of teaching the kid, painted in the spring of 2007, bao yin." I am not so positive about the signature of the artist, since it is on the far left side, and I can't see it very  well, looks like " bao yin" .You might take another picture if possible.

Steven

[Peter Bentley 彭达理]

Hi Frances

Your  rooster  bottle   is high-class  but  the  other  bottle  is  low-class  painting

You are  delving  into a   very   deep  field

But I have   been  there/  done it    /  whatever

So have  many  Forum  members

Glad to  have  you  along  us

Everyone  welcome  ( and I  was  a   rookie   collector  until  very  recently )

Cheers

Peter  @ Hong  Kong

[deelsb26]

Hi Frances, I like your chicken bottle...very cute!
Danna

[Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司]

Dear Frances,
   The Rooster bottle is very well painted. Congratulations!
Joey

[George]

Yes, I also like your rooster bottle..

Nice one !

[joearp]

Hi all, been away for a while.  Love looking at your bottles!  I also absolutely adore the Chicken Bottle! Great pick and very well painted.  Jo

[Ruthven]

Thank you all 

I loved that one as soon as I saw it, it was one of those  'buy me now' moments.


Steven here is a closeup of the signature.


It is interesting if it is Bao Yin as I saw a bottle by him of horses that I also liked.  So would do you think Bao Yin might be a pen name of the student who did the similar chicken bottle on the Zhang Tiesan studio page?

Frances

[Peter Bentley 彭达理]

Hi  Frances

ALWAYS   go  with  those "buy me now"  moments !

I have   bought   some  of  my  best  - and  certainly  all   of  my  most  treasured-  bottles  that  way

If  you  ever  come  to my  home and  see my collection   ( 300  x   MIPBs)   you may   shake  your  head  at  more than a   few  of them  and  wonder  why  on  earth  did  I  buy  that  particular bottle.

But   every  bottle  has  its  own  little    story, and a  special  place  in my  heart because  it   cried  out "buy me  now....   PLEASE "

I  don't  buy   for  investment,  never. Although  I  recognize  now   that  many  of   my bottles   were  bought   well  ahead  of   time,  just  like the   S'Pore  collectors*   bought   very well   ahead  of  time  in the   1990's  (especially  Wang  Guanyu 's  mind-blowing  works  of  creationist  art)

And  even  my  mistake/ learning  bottles  each have  a   special   place  in my  memory, so  I  would  not   willingly  part  with  any  of  them, unless another  collector   could give them  a  more   adoring  home  than  mine

Good  bottles  need   good and  loving  homes

Cheers
Peter

*  RICHARD   :  Is there   any  way  we  can  get the  Nanyang  Group  into the   Forum?  Their   cumulative  knowledge  and  amazing  collections   would  contribute  so  much

[richy88]

Hi Peter

Most of the members of the Nanyang Group should be aware about the forum. But whether they choose to join or participate is beyond my control.

Regards.


Richard

[Steven]

Hi Frances,

The signature is bao yin, but I doubt it could be a art mane( because it doesn't sound like a art name),since yin is seal in English, I would assume the artist's first name is bao, or there is a word bao in his first name.

I can't say your bottle shares the same artist with the one on Shang tieshan studio, since there are a quiet a few of modern artists paint with very similar style ,especially when they are young and with same teacher, when they have their own style, then it's time for them to be a master. Peter knows much more about the modern artist and art than me. If you like the modern bottles, Peter's suggestions are gold.


Steven