A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND FACETED BOTTLE AND SCREW TOP

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A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND FACETED BOTTLE AND SCREW TOP
YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG

The four larger facets painted with rosy-pink dragons leaping after a flaming pearl amidst small puffy clouds, separated by narrow corner facets painted with ascending leafy tendrils bearing four exotic flowers, below pink chilong, leafy tendrils and a blue ruyi collar on the rounded shoulder, the neck encircled by a band of lotus scroll interspersed with pink bats and the screw top with a gilt-decorated dark blue border surrounding a coiled chilong medallion, all reserved on a lemon-yellow ground, with a blue dragon roundel on the white base (some restoration)
6in. (15.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

A painted enamel bottle of this form, with screw top, but painted with different decoration, was included in the exhibition, Chinese Painted Enamels, China House Gallery, New York, October 23, 1969-February 1, 1970, Catalogue, no. 44, where it is illustrated with two tea caddies