Sun Xingwu, 1896
Of elongated, rectangular form with shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck with flat lip and standing on a carved oval footrim, the interior of the bottle very well painted with ink and softly-hued watercolors, one side with a horseman looking up at goose pierced with his arrow falling from the sky, while a pair of geese fly away towards the distant mountains, the reverse with a fisherman sitting on the banks of a river where pavilions are nestled amongst blossoming trees, the opposite bank moored with sampans, the river wending its way into the distant mountains, signed Sun Xingwu, dedicated for the approval of Yutang, an honorable elder brother, dated bingshen duan yue (first month of 1896), with one red seal.
2 1/2in (6.2cm) high
Sun Xingwu, 1896
Of elongated, rectangular form with shoulders sloping to a cylindrical neck with flat lip and standing on a carved oval footrim, the interior of the bottle very well painted with ink and softly-hued watercolors, one side with a horseman looking up at goose pierced with his arrow falling from the sky, while a pair of geese fly away towards the distant mountains, the reverse with a fisherman sitting on the banks of a river where pavilions are nestled amongst blossoming trees, the opposite bank moored with sampans, the river wending its way into the distant mountains, signed Sun Xingwu, dedicated for the approval of Yutang, an honorable elder brother, dated bingshen duan yue (first month of 1896), with one red seal.
2 1/2in (6.2cm) high
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