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Hello,
I am hoping someone may be able to decipher the calligraphy for me and possibly identify the artist
Thank you for looking

Kind regards
Kevin

Reading of the calligraphy,
吹嘯圖　　　　Picture of whistling
癸酉冬書　　　Written on the Winter of Water Cock
Year (...1873,1933..)
(Chinese cyclical years which are
repeated every 60th year)
許晴　　　　　Xu Qing (Name of painter)
Seal illegible
2nd picture,
壮女圖　　　　Picture of an elegant woman
Seal illegible
With regards,

Very grateful for the information, truly a big help, many thanks.
I have added more photos above, which may help an IP expert w/ any possible date to be given by the design character of the bottle itself

Best,

Kevin

This is a modern, tourist trade inside painted snuff bottle, so probably 1993 then.

Bokaba

Hello,
Thank you for the post
I am not that familiar with the tourist trade bottles. this one seems to be done much better than most that I have seen under that label, maybe similar at the higher end(?)

Kind regards

Kevin

More views to possibly help with the dating in how the bottle was made

Thank you for looking

Kind regards

Kevin

Hi Kevin,

Tourist trade bottles are those that were not made for domestic Chinese consumption but rather to sell in shops to tourists. Snuff went out of style in China by the early 1930s, so most antique snuff bottles date to that period or earlier. I included a hexagonal bottle of mine with a court maidens scene (made around 1960 or so) and a Ye Zhongsan bottle date 1913 (belonged to George, one of the moderators on the snuff bottle forum) so that you can see what older style inside painting looks like. There are also a number of contemporary painters in China who paint bottles with exquisite decoration for the collector market, but that is another topic.

Bokaba

Hello,

Thank you for your post, and I very much like the Ye Zhongsan bottle, congratulations!

Kind regards

Kevin

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