About This Forum

This snuff bottle community forum is dedicated to the novice, more experienced, and expert collectors. Topics are intended to cover all aspects and types of bottle collecting. To include trials, tribulations, identifying, researching, and much more.

Among other things, donations help keep the forum free from Google type advertisements, and also make it possible to purchases additional photo hosting MB space.

Forum Bottle in the Spotlight

Charll shared this beautiful Xianfeng (1851-1861) dated bottle depicting NeZha combating the Dragon King amongst a rolling sea of blue and eight mythical sea creatures.


Chinese Snuff Bottle Discussion Forum 中國鼻煙壺討論論壇
April 19, 2024, 01:06:07 am
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
 
  Home Help Search Contact Login Register  

I Am The Mountain Peak by Zhang Yong

Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: I Am The Mountain Peak by Zhang Yong  (Read 550 times)
0 Members and 7 Guests are viewing this topic.
Peter Bentley 彭达理
Private Boards
Hero Member
***
Gender: Male
Posts: 2600



« on: September 19, 2015, 09:25:51 am »

Hi  Pin

I seriously    doubt  if  this  bottle was  actually  painted  by  Da  Yong

It  looks  to me  like a  knock -off   copy  (in the  same   style  as )  Sun  Honglin

Check my  data  base  under   Sun  Honglin for  all  his  published    works  !   

If  you   check  round  the  Nanyang    group  in  S'pore   you   will   find  very  many  genuine   Sun  Honglin    bottles.

 For a   while   I was   competing  with  the   top  collectors  in the  S'Pore  Nanyang  Group   for  the  best of the  best  of  SHL's   works  (so  it's  no  surprise  that  I  featured   some  of  his  best  works    which  I personally collected  in my   ICSBS  article  part 2  )

I  recall  once  going to   SHL's  home /  studio    and  seeing   some  of  his  new  bottles  in the  making.   He  "boasted"   that  "no-one   could   copy  his    unique  style"      But then  I  walked    across  the    road  to the   WXS   shop  and   actually  bought  an  almost  perfect   replica of  one  of  SHL's  published  best  works    for  just  RMB 360   (I  still  keep the  price  tag  on the  bottle  base   as  evidence !)   whereas  at that  time  I was  paying  SHL   RMB 10K  per  bottle  (nowdays  RMB 20K  per  bottle  last  time  I  asked)

The  bottle  I  bought   from the   WXS  shop  was  clearly  signed  Wu  Weitao  -  an  upcoming  junior  artist   whom,  I am sure ,  will  soon  figure  highly  (In fact  I  think he  joined  the   Qin  School  in  Xian )

So there  was  absolutely  no  intent  by  WXS  and  his shop  /   students    to  plagiarize   SHL's    own   original  works

I  think  that  DY  is  taking  you  for a   ride,  very  sorry  to   say

It's  a  very  nice  bottle  and  I  like  it.  But    I  am certain  it's  not  painted  by  DY  himself  and  it's   worth  at most a   few   RMB  K 

Cheers

Peter






* P213(A).jpg (287.06 KB, 768x1024 - viewed 30 times.)

* P213(B).jpg (280.42 KB, 768x1024 - viewed 33 times.)
Report Spam   Logged

Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by EzPortal