201 - A ‘FAMILLE-ROSE’ ENAMELED WHITE GLASS ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE YANGZHOU, 1850-1910

A ‘FAMILLE-ROSE’ ENAMELED WHITE GLASS ‘LANDSCAPE’ SNUFF BOTTLE YANGZHOU, 1850-1910 To Be Sold Without Reserve Of flattened, elongated oval form, with a cylindrical neck, flat lip with inner concavity and protruding, flat oval foot, painted on one main side with two men seated on a grassy bank beneath foliated trees, their picnic basket and bag of necessities beside them on the ground, while a young man hails a distant fisherman beyond a reed bank to provide food for their meal, and on the other with two boats, the larger one covered with a family of a fisherman, his rod set down behind him, his wife and two sons, the smaller boat with another fisherman, his straw hat by his side, chatting to them, the boats moored in the lee of a bank o reeds, with further reed banks on the opposite side of the river in the distance, apocryphal iron-red seal script mark, Qianlong nian zhi (Made during the Qianlong period) Height: 6cm Provenance: Hong Kong Auctioneers, 27th September 1992, lot 205 Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd, 25th March 2008, (a copy of the original invoice available) For a discussion on this group of Yangzhou enamelled bottles, illustrated, discussed and re-dated by Hugh Moss and Stuart H. Sargent, The Yangzhou Conundrum, August 2018 Ω This Lot was imported from outside of the UK, under the Temporary Admission regime 5% import VAT will be charged on the ‘hammer” and 20% VAT will be charged on the ‘buyer’s premium