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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.
