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A MAGNIFICENT IMPERIAL BEIJING ENAMEL GLASS BRUSHPOT
A MAGNIFICENT IMPERIAL BEIJING ENAMEL GLASS BRUSHPOT QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) Of square section with canted corners, the translucent milk-white glass ground is superbly enamelled on each side with a differing European 'mother-and-child' scene, including a lady seated in an interior setting, with a curtain above, her right hand raised in a studied pose, her son holding a flower up for her, with foliage visible beyond the balustraded, open window, another in an exterior setting with trees, mountainous landscape and a European castellated residence, the woman in a straw hat, with a flower in her hair, holding another flower in her left hand, her son at her knee, another in an interior setting with foliage visible beyond a distinctly Chinese, curving balustrade, resting her right hand on a column beneath a curtain, her son beside her at her knee, and the last another exterior scene with European architecture, some castellated, the woman with her hair tied in a cloth turban, resting her head on her left hand, her son at her knee in front of her, all within gilt scroll borders reserved on a pale puce-ground, each of the canted corners with a stylised florette panel enclosed by gilt-decorated blue-ground panels suspended by bats, reserved on a yellow-ground, a narrow black-ground band studded with blue star-shaped florettes encircling the rim and foot, the foot engraved with a wheel-cut mark, Qianlong nianzhi , 'Made in the Qianlong period', in regular script within a double-square 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) high, box