Bottle ID: 00318
YANGZHOU, CARAMEL, INSECTS & DRAGONFLY IN GARDEN LANDSCAPE
Date: 1770-1820
Height: 64 mm
Glass, of elongated teardrop form, the shoulders tapering to a slightly everted wide mouth and with a neatly carved footrim, decorated in famille rose enamels on a caramel gound with a continous scene of a pair of insects and a dragonfly flying among flowering plants, blossoming trees and grasses.
Attributed to Yangzhou.
Similar Examples:
Crane Collection no. 430.
Stevens, Bob C. The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, 1976, p. 267, no. 952.
Christie's, New York, March 21, 2002, lot 27, The Blanche B. Exstein Collection.
Christie, Manson & Woods, St. James's, London, June 10, 1974, lot 59, The Ko Family Collection, Part IV.
Provenance:
Clare Lawrence Ltd.
Beijing Hanhai Art Auction Corp., China, October 24, 1996, lot 54
Exhibited:
Annual Convention ICSBS Toronto, October 2007
Published:
JICSBS, Winter 2008, p. 12, fig. 15
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