An Inside-painted glass snuff bottle
Ye Xiaofeng (Bengxi) b. 1900 - d.1974
Of rounded rectangular shape with tall cylindrical neck and shallow oval foot, painted on one main face with a kingfisher flying above budding and flowering lotus, and other grasses and to the other with a boy flying a kite and crawling on rockwork below willow and near blossoming prunus.
2 5/8in (6.5cm) high
Footnotes:
葉曉峰 玻璃內畫花鳥人物鼻煙壺

For another undated bottle by the same artist, formerly in the Linda Riddell Hoffman Collection, see Bonhams, New York, 22 March 2011, lot 10. See also a bottle painted by the renowned contemporary artist Liu Shouben, with an exquisite portrait of Ye Xiaofeng dated 1992, which according to the inscription was completed from memory. Liu's inscription, which reads: My teacher, Ye Xiaofeng, was born in 1900. In 1974 he passed away. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of his death, I painted this portrait based on my memory of him.

Ye's name was Bengxi, but some writers prefer to call him by his courtesy name, Xiaofeng. He and his two brothers, Bengqi and Bengzhen, shared the middle character of their names, as was common for male siblings or cousins, and the last characters of their names shared the same radical.