A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'VALENTINE'-PATTERN ECUELLE AND COVER
EARLY QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1740-50
With gilt shell handles, delicately enamelled with emblems of love, below a gilt shell-scroll band at the rim, the cover with gilt knop finial and gilt scrolling foliage border
8 in. (20 cm.) wide
A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'VALENTINE'-PATTERN ECUELLE AND COVER
EARLY QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1740-50
With gilt shell handles, delicately enamelled with emblems of love, below a gilt shell-scroll band at the rim, the cover with gilt knop finial and gilt scrolling foliage border
8 in. (20 cm.) wide
