snuff bottle Shina snuff bottle in the late Qing Dynasty Ye Zhongsan old material painting flowers and birds happy eyebrows

introduce: Ye Zhongsan (1869-1945) was a famous master of interior painting in Kyoto in the late Qing Dynasty, and the founder of the originator of interior painting in snuff bottles. Together with Zhou Leyuan, Ma Shaoxuan, and Ding Erzhong, masters of interior painting, he is known as the "Four Masters of Beijing School of Interior Painting". Ye Zhongsan creates a wide range of themes, with elegant style and delicate brushstrokes. He is omnipotent in calligraphy, flowers and birds, landscapes, grass and insects, characters, historical stories or legends of ladies. Taking 1949 as the boundary, the inner painting pots are divided into two categories: new and old. The price of old inner painting pots is quite high, especially for famous works. Ye Zhongsan's crystal interior painting snuff bottle sold at auction on May 23, 2016: RMB3,570,000. The material of this pot is an old utensil, with flowers and birds as the theme, and the painting is fine. It is believed that magpies can announce good luck, so they are called magpies or birds of good luck, and two magpies mean double happiness. The title on the upper left corner is "Xin Chou (27 years Guangxu, 1901) Winter, three works by Ye Zhong." https://youtube.com/shorts/iNyNtkr2n8w?feature=share