Provenance: |Collection of Yu-Sheng Louise Feng, brought from China, late 1940's|Aspects of this bottle's design, such as the puce scrolling vine and blue lingzhi heads, are taken from enameled bottles on glass and metal produced by the Qianlong Palace workshops in the 18th century. Here, the artist's attention to detail is exquisite, with the shifting tones in the petals, the variegated colors of the leaves, and even the birds' tongues all carefully attended to with fine brushwork. For a thorough discussion of this group of enameled wares produced by the Ye family in Beijing, see Hugh Moss, "The Apricot Grove Studio, Part III: Enameled Glass Wares", Journal, Autumn 1985, pp. 116-30, where similar examples are illustrated.