A LARGE CHINESE PAINTED ENAMEL BASIN
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Finely and delicately painted at the centre with five pairs of birds including phoenix, cranes, mandarin ducks, love-birds, and long-tailed birds, within a lavender-blue-ground well with numerous bats in flight amongst scrolling lotus, the wide floral, yellow-ground, everted rim reserved with three floral cartouches alternating with dragon roundels, the blue underside with similar dragons
17 ¾ in. (45 cm.) diameter
A LARGE CHINESE PAINTED ENAMEL BASIN
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Finely and delicately painted at the centre with five pairs of birds including phoenix, cranes, mandarin ducks, love-birds, and long-tailed birds, within a lavender-blue-ground well with numerous bats in flight amongst scrolling lotus, the wide floral, yellow-ground, everted rim reserved with three floral cartouches alternating with dragon roundels, the blue underside with similar dragons
17 ¾ in. (45 cm.) diameter
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