I.66
Palace Butterflies

Famille-rose enamels on translucent glass; with a flat lip and flat foot; painted with a continuous garden scene with three butterflies flying above flowering orchids and asters, the neck with a band of double-unit leiwen (‘thunder pattern’) from which a series of bejewelled chains link to registers of flower heads
Guyue xuan, palace workshops, Beijing, 1767–1785
Height: 5.02 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.6/1.2 cm
Stopper: coral; gilt-metal collar

Provenance:
My Humble House, Taipei, November 2002
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd