Enamel bottle with garlic mouth, China, Qing dynasty(1644-1911), Qianlong period(1735-1796), porcelain with polychrome enamel painting(chin. fencai), compressed spherical corpus, long neck and characteristically indented so called garlic mouth(chin. suankou). suankou), elaborate decoration in baroque Qianlong style with treasure flowers in tendrils everywhere, various ornamental bands and lotus blossom wreath, in the four round main fields transfigured Confucianist themes in front of a South Chinese backdrop: Fishing, farming, reading in the scholars' garden and the shepherd boy on the water buffalo under willow trees, chasing the straw hat, six-character mark Qianlong, slight lesion of the enamel skin, historical perforation of the bottom, 44x26cm