18TH CENTURY
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A Canton enamel quatrefoil spoon-tray and a famille rose dish
18th Century
The Canton enamel quatrefoil spoon tray finely enamelled with a pheasant perched on promontory rockwork and looking at another one standing on a grassy mound among flowering peony, the reverse with pink bats on a pale green cracked-ice and plum blossom pattern ground, encircling a stem of peach within the footring, some minor old cracks; and the centre of the famille rose dish enamelled with Antiquities placed among promontory pierced rockwork and flowering branches of prunus and peony, encircled around the rim with a composite border enriched with flower-heads and tasselled ribbons suspending buddhistic symbols
11.8 cm. wide; the dish 32 cm. diam. (2)
18th Century
The Canton enamel quatrefoil spoon tray finely enamelled with a pheasant perched on promontory rockwork and looking at another one standing on a grassy mound among flowering peony, the reverse with pink bats on a pale green cracked-ice and plum blossom pattern ground, encircling a stem of peach within the footring, some minor old cracks; and the centre of the famille rose dish enamelled with Antiquities placed among promontory pierced rockwork and flowering branches of prunus and peony, encircled around the rim with a composite border enriched with flower-heads and tasselled ribbons suspending buddhistic symbols
11.8 cm. wide; the dish 32 cm. diam. (2)