Description
comprising; a small oval Guyuexuan glass bottle decorated in famille rose enamels depicting an insect on a turnip, base with three incised characters, a pair of underglaze red and blue bottles with dragons, a small finely painted blue and white bottle with apocryphal Yongzheng mark depicting a man in a boat in a river landscape, a pair underglaze blue and red bottles, conjoined in the firing, with mythological animals amongst flames, a blue and white cylindrical bottle with gentlemen in a boat, Yongzheng mark, a flattened oval famille rose bottle with a lady in a palace scene, the reverse with a man delivering baskets to a house, the base with Daoguang mark and a pebble form famille rose bottle, with a cricket perched on a vine, the reverse with an insect on a magnolia branch (8)
Dimensions
tallest 8.6cm
Footnote
Provenance: Selected contents from the estate of the late Lady Mary Stewart - see lot 151 for further information.
Aquired one from Aldric Young, 1971