A LARGE SAMSON FAMILLE ROSE BALUSTER MOULDED OCTOGANAL JAR AND COVER finely enamelled with alternating shaped panels of exotic birds perched and flying among lotus, prunus, peony and pavilions in a mountainous riverscape, all reserved on an iron-red whorl-pattern-ground embellished with chrysanthemum and peony-sprays, the domed cover similarly decorated surmounted by a gilt biscuit Buddhistic lion finial (part of base restored, cover with crack), 19th Century