A FINE FAMILLE ROSE CHARGER painted at the centre with two fishermen wading through a river with their fishing baskets, approaching two stationary punts, one with a mother suckling her baby beside another child, the other punt with an old lady and her attendant, the scene being watched over by a sage reclining against a vat of wine and a girl playing with a little boy on the river-bank, all within a band of pink trellis-pattern divided by iron-red and gilt chrysanthemum-heads in the well, the wide border with four groups of archaistic vessels and precious emblems (crack restored), early Qianlong