Specialists in Eighteenth Century Furniture Apter-Fredericks
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A Fine Pair of Canton Enamel Flasks
A Fine Pair of Canton Enamel Flasks
The flasks of upright rectangular form with clipped corners, slightly domed shoulders and cylindrical screw covers. The bodies decorated with panels of floral sprays on a white ground, reserved against a yellow floral ground and separated by small pink ground floral panels. The shoulders decorated with blue floral scrollwork. The covers decorated with pink ground floral sides and a single flower on the flat top.
 
Chinese, Qing Dynasty 18th Century
 
A single flask, called a bottle, with a similar screw top is illustrated in Chinese Painted Enamels in plate number 44
 
Height: 5" 14.5cm