Sunday, April 25, 2021

Li Kechang Chinese Snuff Bottle

Chinese Snuff Bottle by Li Kechang

Mountain lake scene with pointed peaks and boulders at the lake edge and Shachuan (sand ships).

Signed Li Kechang, dated xin wei (1991). The script can be read, "imitating Nan tains style and writing the poem from Liu Zhongyuan (A famous poet from Tang dynasty) in 1991 by Ke Chang". 

The poem in Lishu (clerical script), marked with Li in red seal, 2 1/4" tall.

Li Kechang was born in September 1942 in Boshan, Shandong Province. Bi Hengyuan was his first master, and then Xue Jingwan, Zhang Wentang, and Ding Yaodong. 



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