THE PROPERTY OF THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, REMOVED FROM MEIKLEOUR HOUSE
A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE CANTON ENAMEL SAUCER-DISH
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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE CANTON ENAMEL SAUCER-DISH
qianlong
Delicately enamelled in a central roundel with dignitaries, scholars, ladies and attendants at leisure on a terrace in a mountainous river landscape, one lady on horseback riding away from the others, another figure feeding two peacocks in the foreground, below a yellow-ground band with scrolling flowering foliage reserved with four gui dragon oval panels at the compass points, the reverse with five blue enamel stylised dragon motifs around two dragons in a roundel on the base, surface scratching and wear
17¼in. (43.7cm.) diam.
qianlong
Delicately enamelled in a central roundel with dignitaries, scholars, ladies and attendants at leisure on a terrace in a mountainous river landscape, one lady on horseback riding away from the others, another figure feeding two peacocks in the foreground, below a yellow-ground band with scrolling flowering foliage reserved with four gui dragon oval panels at the compass points, the reverse with five blue enamel stylised dragon motifs around two dragons in a roundel on the base, surface scratching and wear
17¼in. (43.7cm.) diam.