A FAMILLE ROSE CHINESE TASTE DISH delicately enamelled with two song-birds perched on a gnarled branch within four yellow-ground lappets reserved with peony and lotus, the pink trellis-pattern border reserved with four cartouches of fruiting branches and four yellow-ground roundels with dragons, the reverse enamelled with five dragons in various pursuits flying through clouds and flames on a wash-blue ground, the yellow-ground base reserved with five bats centred by a phoenix (some gilding slightly rubbed), the centre with two seals of the painter, on the foot three characters saying Old Moon Pavilion, 19th Century
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A FAMILLE ROSE CHINESE TASTE DISH delicately enamelled with two song-birds perched on a gnarled branch within four yellow-ground lappets reserved with peony and lotus, the pink trellis-pattern border reserved with four cartouches of fruiting branches and four yellow-ground roundels with dragons, the reverse enamelled with five dragons in various pursuits flying through clouds and flames on a wash-blue ground, the yellow-ground base reserved with five bats centred by a phoenix (some gilding slightly rubbed), the centre with two seals of the painter, on the foot three characters saying Old Moon Pavilion, 19th Century
28cm. diam.
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