A RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'ELEPHANT-TRUNK-HANDLE' TANKARD AND COVER Qianlong period, circa 1740 Brightly decorated in famille rose enamels in a continuous scene around the vessel with a variety of flora and fauna, including a hawk on rockwork with composite flower stems of aster, peony, bamboo and camillia, a bat nearby above a mythical lion-like beast and a collared hound alongside a jardiniere of camillia and a crowing cockerel standing on rockwork issuing cockscomb with a bat and butterfly above, all set within lappets and thin bands above the pale blue and white enameled slightly spreading foot and below a lambrequin band and two thin lotus bands at the rim, the unusual handle of elephant-trunk-form and enameled in pale blue with hanging caparison strapwork of seven relief circles in iron-red, green and gilt, the domed cover with chrysanthemum flowerheads and ruyi lappets with honeycomb cell ground and gilt knop buf finial. 8 1/2in (21cm) high Footnotes: 乾隆時期 約1740年 粉彩禽鳥花卉紋《象鼻把》蓋杯 Provenance: Cohen & Cohen, London The Popowich Collection Publication: Cohen & Cohen, Take Two, Antwerp, 2017, pp. 88-89, no. 37 Exhibition: Take Two, Cohen & Cohen, London, 2-11 November 2017 來源： 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行 The Popowich Collection私人收藏 出版： Cohen & Cohen, Take Two, Antwerp, 2017年，頁88-89，圖錄編號37 展覽： 《Take Two》，倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，2017年11月2日至11日