Hi All
Some Forum members may recall that I once visited Ma Baoku's home in Shijiazhuang
That was in 3.2009 - just before my first-ever trip to Hengshui the next day : Mecca of VMIPBs
On Ma Baoku's pages in CIPMA there are two special "masterpiece" bottles. One is a gorilla and the other is a nude (strange juxtaposition !)
You can get good quality pics on Bill Patrick'w website
www.snuffbottlecollector.comI was surprised to see both bottles still on MBK's home shelves - both were one-side painted, as if unfinished / never-for-sale* /signature bottles
The nude was especially tasteful because she was Asian ( in fact Japanese) *
I often wondered who the nude girl was in Ma Baoku's bottle until I stumbled on
exactly the same nude painted by Dong Xue in Yeo KongHoo's book ( of which Geoff now has has my second copy)
Her name is Rie Miyazawa who seems to have been a famous soft-porn idol in the mid 1990's
The pics came from a book of her nude images called (strangely) "Santa Fe" by a famous Japanese photographer : Kishin Shinoyama
You can google the rest ... do it !
(The Chinese name for her is slightly wrongly translated into Pin Yin by Yeo Konghoo : "zhe" 泽 should be " ze" )
This all comes from diligent research into the inner depths of Inside Painting Bottles ...
... and sometimes also Asian nudes
Enjoy !
Cheers
Peter
* PS : OK....! Please grant me the fact that I am impossibly in love with Asian women, most of all my beautiful wife who is Chinese
So I see a Chinese nude every time we get out of bed and / or take a shower together, which is (both) many times per day !
