I.69
Ko Quail and Katydid

Famille rose enamels on translucent glass; with a flat lip and flat foot; painted on one main side with two quail beneath a millet plant with a perforated garden rock, asters, and some bare branches, and on the other with a katydid on a perforated garden rock with chrysanthemums and a long seeding stalk of grass, the neck with a band of formalized lingzhi; the foot inscribed in regular script Guyue xuan 古月軒 (‘Ancient Moon Pavilion’)
Guyue xuan, palace workshops, Beijing, 1770–1799
Height: 6.2 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.8/1.9 cm
Stopper: mother-of-pearl; glass collar

Provenance:
Beijing, 1922
Ko Collection, no. 269/1S
Christie’s, London, 14 June 1971, lot 42
Robert Kleiner