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Lot Essay
This bottle is one of a very rare group of early Qianlong bottles painted with landscapes. Another rare example, with a poem but without an Imperial mark, formerly in the Meriem Collection, was sold in these rooms, 19 September 2007, lot 629. A third was offered at Etude Jutheau, Paris, 5-6 March 1985, lot 68; a fourth is in a private Hong Kong collection. They represent the finest of eighteenth-century enameled landscape painting, and with the design of two figures, one pointing, in front of a long waterfall are obviously the inspiration for the later, repeated versions of a similar theme represented by lot 271.
Standing between the present early Qianlong example, and the later more decorative versions of the same subject is a unique enameled cup bearing a Qianlong mark from the Jingguantang Collection, sold our Hong Kong Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 509. See the note to lot 282 for mention of the difficulties in producing enameled glass.
Standing between the present early Qianlong example, and the later more decorative versions of the same subject is a unique enameled cup bearing a Qianlong mark from the Jingguantang Collection, sold our Hong Kong Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 509. See the note to lot 282 for mention of the difficulties in producing enameled glass.