PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A RARE SMALL FINELY PAINTED ENAMEL EWER AND COVER
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A RARE SMALL FINELY PAINTED ENAMEL EWER AND COVER
YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD
The compressed globular body delicately painted in a narrow band with two long scenes of birds in landscape settings, the two pairs of birds on one side surrounded by peony, magnolia and roses, the pair of geese and pair of quail on the reverse separated by a stream and flanked by stalks of millet, with multi-colored peony sprigs reserved on a yellow ground on the canted shoulder and lower body, the loop handle and short, diagonally set spout emerging from overlapping blue and reddish petals, all between ruyi-head borders, the slightly domed cover painted with sprigs of peony, lotus, chrysanthemum and prunus branches separated by ribbon-tied, pendent 'endless' knots radiating from a flowerhead at the base of the globular finial, some restoration
4½in. (11.5cm.) across
YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN BLUE ENAMEL WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD
The compressed globular body delicately painted in a narrow band with two long scenes of birds in landscape settings, the two pairs of birds on one side surrounded by peony, magnolia and roses, the pair of geese and pair of quail on the reverse separated by a stream and flanked by stalks of millet, with multi-colored peony sprigs reserved on a yellow ground on the canted shoulder and lower body, the loop handle and short, diagonally set spout emerging from overlapping blue and reddish petals, all between ruyi-head borders, the slightly domed cover painted with sprigs of peony, lotus, chrysanthemum and prunus branches separated by ribbon-tied, pendent 'endless' knots radiating from a flowerhead at the base of the globular finial, some restoration
4½in. (11.5cm.) across
Provenance
Stephen Junkunc III