A pair of porcelain European subject medicine bottles, of flattened rectangular shape, painted with famille verte and blue enamels depiciting the profile of a gentleman, the reverse being upside down, the neck and shoulders with stylised scrolling foliage, stopper -- 2.5/8in (6.5cm) high, Iron-red date guiyou to base, 19th Century, (damage to one stopper).
A pair of porcelain European subject medicine bottles, of flattened rectangular shape, painted with famille verte and blue enamels depiciting the profile of a gentleman, the reverse being upside down, the neck and shoulders with stylised scrolling foliage, stopper -- 2.5/8in (6.5cm) high, Iron-red date guiyou to base, 19th Century, (damage to one stopper).

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A pair of porcelain European subject medicine bottles, of flattened rectangular shape, painted with famille verte and blue enamels depiciting the profile of a gentleman, the reverse being upside down, the neck and shoulders with stylised scrolling foliage, stopper -- 2.5/8in (6.5cm) high, Iron-red date guiyou to base, 19th Century, (damage to one stopper).
See Colour Plate 7. (2)

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