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"Yong Shou T'ian's inside painting career started in 1898 and ended in 1926. He was fond of painting figures as well as famous generals riding on horses, fighting with each other in famous battlefields. He was fond of large-sized bottles which are easy to paint with many figures." A New Look of Chinese Inside Painted Snuff Bottles - J.H. Leung |
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Not much is known about Yong Shou T'ien. He is considered a Middle Period painter, a general classification of painters who painted in the late 1800's through the mid 1900's. A couple of the bottles in this collection use "Simplified" Chinese in the signature. While some form of simplified writing was in use duringYong Shou T'ien's painting period from 1898 to 1926, this form of writing did not become widely used until the Cultural Revolution in the attempt to unify Chinese writing and to destroy much of Chinese tradition. Even though these bottles are painted in traditional Yong Shou T'ien style and in larger, more rounded bottles not often used by other painters, if is only fair to say that they may not all have been painted by Yong. |