Asian Works of Art

the bottle of flattened shield form, the front painted to depict a fisherman standing on a bridge with goose swimming in the river, the reverse depicting another farmer with two waterbirds on a boat under tree, signed Ye Zhongsan (1875-1945), dated renchen zhongqiuyue ("The eighth month on lunar calendar in year renchen," corresponding to year 1892), followed by a red seal.