Millefleurs

Stopper: transparent blue and white enamels on silver, decorated as a formalized flower head; original
Height, including original stopper: 5.22 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.70/1.32 cm

Provenance:
Brandt Oriental Art, 30 January 1997
Jana Volf, March 2011

 

Transparent, polychrome enamels on silver (cloisonné); with a flat lip and concave foot; decorated with a continuous design of flower-heads including peonies, lilies, chrysanthemums, begonias, and prunus, above a foot band of a flowering branch, the foot and lip silver.

Alexander Whittaker