21.5.275 Bengqi’s Chicks Colourless glass, ink and water-colours; of rounded-rectangular form with a cylindrical neck, concave lip and recessed, convex oval foot surrounded by a protruding, flat, oval footrim; painted on the inside with a continuous garden scene with ornamental natural rock formations, roses, day-lilies and another flower with a foreground grassy ground upon which a hen watches her five chicks, inscribed in slightly cursive regular script above ‘Made by Ye Zhongsan in the apricot month of the bingxu year,’ with one seal of the artist yin (seal) Ye Bengqi, Apricot Grove Studio, Chongwen District, Beijing, second month, 1946 Height: 6.16 cm Mouth/lip: .59/1.99 cm Stopper: coral, carved with a coiled chi dragon; glass collar Provenance: Charles V. Swain Christie’s Interiors, New York, 1 July 2008, lot 761