A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE BASIN

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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE BASIN
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

The thickly potted, tapering sides decorated with four shaped cartouches alternately decorated with landscapes and lengthy poems with three iron-red seals, one of gourd shape reading, Gu Qi, reserved against a yellow ground decorated with lotus scroll and gilt shou characters, all between lappet and ruyi borders, the interior painted in the bottom with fish swimming amidst water weeds and at the rim with melon vines and squirrels in grape vines--24 3/4in. (62.9cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

One of the poems tells the story of Zhu Maichen of the Han Dynasty, the other poem refers to a farmer who showed great filial piety. The poems were written between 620-623. Qiao Qiu is probably the name of the calligrapher