Beschreibung:

A RARE AND IMPORTANT IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE BEIJING ENAMEL BOTTLE QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL AND OF THE PERIOD, BEIJING PALACE WORKSHOPS Of flattened rounded shape, delicately painted on each face with a circular rope-twist cartouche with a European lady and child before a backdrop of a gentle river landscape with hedges, clear blue sky and high-roofed European-style building, both ladies with a yellow basket of flowers slung over their right shoulders, one lady wearing a green-collared pink dress and blue skirt, adjusting her bonnet whilst a blonde-haired boy gently prods at her elbow, the other lady wears a blue-collared, mauve dress and green skirt, her right arm raised slightly, whilst another blonde-haired boy wearing an orange jacket offers her a poesy of flowers, the narrow sides painted with oval, pink landscape vignettes set within further rope-twist borders, all on a pale blue ground with dark blue foliate scrolling below ruyi -shaped collars and further scrolls in green, yellow, blue and puce enamel at the neck, unobtrusive minute neck flake to one side and small original firing flake to other, stopper