A LOTUS BOWL, COVER AND STAND

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A LOTUS BOWL, COVER AND STAND
CIRCA 1745-50

The bowl and cover forming a large lotus bloom and the stand a curling lotus pad, all applied with stems of lotus picked out in gilt, iron-red and blue-green, the petal-moulded sides and the stand painted with songbirds in rose bushes, grisaille blossoming bough borders (small touch ups and losses)--11¼in. (28.5cm.) wide