18TH/19TH CENTURY
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A large cloisonne enamel fish basin
18th/19th Century
The interior decorated with large and small fish, a crab and frog, all swimming among aquatic weeds below a ruyi lappet border, the everted gilt-edged rim encircled by a honey-comb pattern enriched with florets, repeated on the outer rim and base, the exterior sides with a scrolling meander of lotus, all on a turquoise ground
50 cm. diam.
18th/19th Century
The interior decorated with large and small fish, a crab and frog, all swimming among aquatic weeds below a ruyi lappet border, the everted gilt-edged rim encircled by a honey-comb pattern enriched with florets, repeated on the outer rim and base, the exterior sides with a scrolling meander of lotus, all on a turquoise ground
50 cm. diam.