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Bird and Insect Bottle

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« on: January 29, 2014, 08:46:01 am »
Hi All

I had a good lunch and an exciting guided tour of Peter Bentley's bottle collection today in Hong Kong - a really superb collection with so much to talk about and not enough time.
I did manage to show Peter a few of my bottles and he asked me to post this one for comment



It has a crack across the lower part of the front face.

I can't remember where I bought it but I thought it looked like an old bottle and birds are my favourite subject.

Geoff Welch
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2014, 08:50:17 am »
Dear Geoff,
 That looks like a Ye Bengqi (but signed, as they all were, till the 1950s, Ye Zhongsan). It looks quite interesting, but I am notorious about not recognising the quality of bottles through the Internet.
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« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2014, 11:18:19 am »
Hi Geoff,

Thank you for sharing such a beautiful bottle, I agree with Joey, it could be a Ye bengqi bottle false dated 1892, there are a group of bottles false dated at the same year.

I would date the bottle 1920-1930 or a little bit later according the painting style.

Again a wonderful bottle, thank you for sharing!

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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2014, 12:31:38 pm »
Beautiful Bottle Geoff..

Looking through the Apricot Grove series, birds/insects were a popular Ye studio theme during the dates Steven suggests, 1920/30's , and yours does look very much like Ye Bengqi's ..
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« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2014, 05:24:57 pm »
Thanks for these replies.

I'm very pleased with the suggestion it is a Ye family bottle.

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« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2014, 06:30:13 pm »
I agree on the origin of the bottle. Nice one Geoff!
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