Recalling the Emperor’s Favourites

Bottle: 1750-1860
Painting: Ye Xiaofeng, Beijing, probably 1930-1949
Height: 6.2 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.68/1.50 cm
Stopper: mother-of-pearl; glass collar

Provenance:
Sydney L. Moss Ltd. (X1771) prior to 1961
Christie’s, London, 12 November 2010, Lot 1043
Robert Hall, November 2010

Flawless crystal, ink, and watercolours; with a flat lip and recessed flat foot surrounded by a protruding flat foot rim; painted on the inside with a continuous garden scene, with convoluted rock formations, peonies, orchids, and other flowers and with a low bamboo fence, with a posturing Pekinese dog with bells around its collar and two doves, perched on the rock, inscribed in regular script Beijing Ye Xiaofeng zuo北京葉皢峰作 (‘Beijing, made by Ye Xiaofeng’)