Ref: U745
£ 3,000
Price is subject to availability and market conditions.
Chinese famille verte gin flask, Kangxi (1662-1722), with later European ormolu mount, the square-section body with four panels variously containing branches of flowering peony with butterflies, scholar’s objects around a vase of lotus on a stand, birds flying above flowering prunus issuing from rockwork, and a riverscape scene of a fisherman in a boat with a distant rider and further figure on the bank, all within bands of keyfret pattern in underglaze blue, the shoulders with stylised floral sprays and the neck encircled by a scrolling band, surmounted by an ormolou gilt lid in the form of a lotus flower.
