A celadon-ground famille-rose ‘landscape’ bottle vase, Republic period | 民國 豆青地粉彩山水圖長頸瓶

Exuberantly and finely enameled, the present lot is decorated with landscapes encircling the body of a vase, like a painting on a handscroll that is revealed with every turn, inspired by Qianlong prototype. Qianlong vases decorated in this style, with mountainous landscapes featuring pavilions in richly-colored vegetation among towering rockwork and expanses of water, are known to have been applied onto porcelain by Tang Ying (1682-1756). Compare a Qianlong seal mark and period pear-shaped vase, with a similar mountainous landscape painting, first sold at Christie's New York, 24th March 2004, lot 251, and again in our Hong Kong rooms, 5th April 2017, lot 3624.