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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4576509, member: 2844"]You found it.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Yours is an elegant beauty of the type called "A Hundred Cranes". Cranes were an important symbol in China as well as Japan.</p><p>It was either made by a student at the Technical and Artistic Institute of Shantou or by the Peach River Studios. I'm sure there is a connection between the two, because vase shapes, the unusual thinness of the glass, the delicate paintwork, the use of gilding, and the high jade caps are exactly the same.</p><p>Maybe the two are one and the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the most complete info I could find on Peach River:</p><p>"At the 1974 Canton Trade Fair a new school of inside painting made its appearance: the Peach River Painting Studio. ...</p><p>these (bottles) were merely vaselike containers making no pretense of being snuff bottles. ... The glass of these bottles is extremely thin." - Stevens</p><p><br /></p><p>"When art work first resumed at the institute, the Cultural Revolution was still in progress and all works would be signed with</p><p>"The Peach River Painting Studio" instead of the painter's name. ... The studio also used used three other names: Ge Lang</p><p>- signed on figure paintings, Tie Fu on animal paintings, and Hong Sheng on landscape paintings."</p><p><a href="http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_1b.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_1b.htm" rel="nofollow">http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_1b.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is the same shape as yours:</p><p><a href="http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_10.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_10.htm" rel="nofollow">http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_10.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>On the same location of both:</p><p>"This works is definitely painted in 1970s at Peach River Studio (produce in Guangdong province Shantou city)" Wang Guanyu</p><p><a href="http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_5.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_5.htm" rel="nofollow">http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_5.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So both are in Shantou, and the owner of the site believes Peach River still made bottles in the 80s and possibly the 90s.</p><p>Mine was originally sold in the late 80s, and presumably made shortly before.</p><p>I wonder if the studio had become part of the Technical and Artistic Institute of Shantou, or maybe they were always part of the Institute? Making TAIS bottles Peach River bottles and vice versa?</p><p><br /></p><p>The box of this one is signed the same as my box, Zhong Guo Shan Tou Nei cai Yar hu, China, Shantou:</p><p><a href="http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_8.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_8.htm" rel="nofollow">http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_8.htm</a></p><p>According to the owner of the site, the bottle inside is Peach River, made in 1985.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the first page of his Peach River Studios collection:</p><p><a href="http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_0.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_0.htm" rel="nofollow">http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_0.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4576509, member: 2844"]You found it.:) Yours is an elegant beauty of the type called "A Hundred Cranes". Cranes were an important symbol in China as well as Japan. It was either made by a student at the Technical and Artistic Institute of Shantou or by the Peach River Studios. I'm sure there is a connection between the two, because vase shapes, the unusual thinness of the glass, the delicate paintwork, the use of gilding, and the high jade caps are exactly the same. Maybe the two are one and the same. This is the most complete info I could find on Peach River: "At the 1974 Canton Trade Fair a new school of inside painting made its appearance: the Peach River Painting Studio. ... these (bottles) were merely vaselike containers making no pretense of being snuff bottles. ... The glass of these bottles is extremely thin." - Stevens "When art work first resumed at the institute, the Cultural Revolution was still in progress and all works would be signed with "The Peach River Painting Studio" instead of the painter's name. ... The studio also used used three other names: Ge Lang - signed on figure paintings, Tie Fu on animal paintings, and Hong Sheng on landscape paintings." [URL]http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_1b.htm[/URL] This one is the same shape as yours: [URL]http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_10.htm[/URL] On the same location of both: "This works is definitely painted in 1970s at Peach River Studio (produce in Guangdong province Shantou city)" Wang Guanyu [URL]http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_5.htm[/URL] So both are in Shantou, and the owner of the site believes Peach River still made bottles in the 80s and possibly the 90s. Mine was originally sold in the late 80s, and presumably made shortly before. I wonder if the studio had become part of the Technical and Artistic Institute of Shantou, or maybe they were always part of the Institute? Making TAIS bottles Peach River bottles and vice versa? The box of this one is signed the same as my box, Zhong Guo Shan Tou Nei cai Yar hu, China, Shantou: [URL]http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_8.htm[/URL] According to the owner of the site, the bottle inside is Peach River, made in 1985. This is the first page of his Peach River Studios collection: [URL]http://snuffbottlecollector.com/_antique/peach_river/peach_river_0.htm[/URL][/QUOTE]
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