Yangzhou Double
Yangzhou, 1865-1911
Height: 4.4 cm
Mouths/lips: 0.50/0.98 cm
Stopper: gilt bronze chased with a formalized floral design
Provenance:
Robert Hall, London, 2004
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4131
Christie’s, New York, 13 September 2017, lot 274
Famille rose enamels on translucent white glass; a double bottle, each section with a flat lip and concave foot; the two main sides with two rounded-rectangular raised panels decorated with on one main side with a scholar gazing across a river towards a waterfall and a flowering rose bush, and on the other with an open pavilion beside trees by a river and two bees flying above chrysanthemums, the panels surrounded by branches of two colours of blossoming prunus, the foot inscribed in iron-red seal script, with two characters on each foot, Qianlong yu zhi 乾隆御製 (‘Made by [imperial command of] the Qianlong emperor’)
