A CHINESE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL BOTTLE VASE. Qing Dynasty, 19th Century. The rounded body decorated with peony stems and butterflies on a black latticework ground, raised on a splayed foot covered with a band of lotus flowers on a turquoise ground, and below a neck set with a raised gilt band separating a border of rectilinear kui dragons on a pink ground at the shoulders below a waisted neck decorated with a band of upward facing lotus lappets and scrolling lotus on a lapis blue ground, and a wide flared rim decorated with lotus scroll against a turquoise ground, the interior and base gilt, 27.5cm H. Provenance: from the collection of Thomas Child (1841 – 1898) and his family, thence by descent. An English photographer and engineer best known for his pioneering photography work in China. Child produced a large body of photographs during his time in Beijing in the 1870s and 1880s, a time when virtually no other photographers operated in the city. During the two decades he spent in China, Child compiled the earliest comprehensive photographic catalogue of the customs, architecture, and people of late Qing dynasty Beijing. Child returned to England in 1889 with his family, except for his eldest son Alfred, also employed with the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, who stayed behind in Beijing as his father's successor. Child formally retired from the Customs service the following year. 清十九世纪 铜胎画珐琅瓶 来源：Thomas Child (1841 – 1898) 家族私人收藏，后传承至今。 For a related pair of revolving cloisonné enamel vases in the Phoenix Art Museum see Chinese Cloisonné: The Clague Collection, Phoenix, Arizona, 1980, pl.58.