Branched

Yangzhou, 1865-1911
Height: 5.55 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.53/1.50 cm
Stopper: amethyst; silver collar

Provenance:
Chilcott Collection, Vancouver, October 2015 (no. 46)

 

Famille rose enamels on translucent white glass; with a flat lip and concave foot; painted on each main side with a bird in the branches of a tree, one with a long-tailed bird and blossoming prunus with bamboo in the background, the other with another bird and another blossoming tree, the neck with a band of formalized floral design, the foot inscribed in iron-red seal script, Qianlong nian zhi 乾隆年製 (‘Made in the Qianlong era’).

Alexander Whittaker