A Canton famille rose bowl and dish
Late 19th Century
Both brightly enamelled and gilt to the central medallion with panels of birds and butterflies in a flowering garden, surrounded by panels with similar scenes within keyfret-pattern borders on a ground of buddhist Symbols and Scholar's Attributes surrounded by further flowers and butterflies, minor rim frittings and gilt rubbing
The dish 33.5 cm. diam.; the bowl 30 cm. diam. (2)
A Canton famille rose bowl and dish
Late 19th Century
Both brightly enamelled and gilt to the central medallion with panels of birds and butterflies in a flowering garden, surrounded by panels with similar scenes within keyfret-pattern borders on a ground of buddhist Symbols and Scholar's Attributes surrounded by further flowers and butterflies, minor rim frittings and gilt rubbing
The dish 33.5 cm. diam.; the bowl 30 cm. diam. (2)
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