A Chinese famille rose oblong octagonal soup tureen, cover and stand with pomegranate finial and harehead handles, each piece painted with cranes perched among flowering peony branches issuing from pierced blue rockwork in a fenced garden with birds in flight and perched among flowering branches (the cover with chips and flaking to the finial and rim chips, the tureen with glaze chips to the handle and rim, and the stand with various rim chips, the enamels rubbed), Qianlong, the stand 15in. (38cm) wide