I.67
High Winds Aloft

Famille rose enamels on translucent glass; with a flat lip and flat foot; painted with a continuous landscape scene with a willow tree, rocks, asters, and other foliage in which a young man rides a blanketed ox while flying a kite, with a shoulder band of formalized lingzhi beneath a neck band of formalized floral scroll; the foot inscribed in regular script Guyue xuan 古月軒 (‘Ancient Moon Pavilion’)
Guyue xuan, palace workshops, Beijing, 1767–1785
Height: 6.00 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.85/1.40 cm
Stopper: coral, mother-of-pearl; glass collar

Provenance:
A&J Speelman, London
Robert Kleiner
Albemarle Collection
Robert Kleiner, 2006

Published:
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Albemarle Collection: Part II (London: Robert Kleiner & Co., 2006), no. 14

Exhibited:
Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C., October–November 2000