Sensitively painted in enamel with black pencil details depicting a katydid with long thin antennae, the concave foot bearing a four-character Qianlong mark. The Katydid, pronounced guoguo in Chinese, creates a pun for the word "Country", when the bottle with this design was gifted to a court official by the emperor it would be seen as both a recognition and a reminder of the essential virtue that any official figure had to carry. Provenance: David Chang Collection (San Francisco, California). See More