Lot Essay
Compare with an enamelled zhadou in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, decorated with European landscape panels reserved on a similar yellow ground embellished with a tight pink scroll illustrated in Great National Treasures of China, Catalogue, pl. 97 and with an enamelled barrel-shaped jar of related form decorated with European ladies within shaped panels illustrated as pl. 85.
In his discussion on enamels produced in the Imperial workshops, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, Hugh Moss notes that there is an interesting distinction between the way European and Chinese subjects were painted, p. 281, "European subjects were invariably created with an illusionistic impression of three-dimensionality built up by careful shading or stippling. Chinese subjects were often outlined confidently in the more linear style of the Chinese tradition of painting."
(US$18,000-24,000)
In his discussion on enamels produced in the Imperial workshops, The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, Hugh Moss notes that there is an interesting distinction between the way European and Chinese subjects were painted, p. 281, "European subjects were invariably created with an illusionistic impression of three-dimensionality built up by careful shading or stippling. Chinese subjects were often outlined confidently in the more linear style of the Chinese tradition of painting."
(US$18,000-24,000)