A FINE FAMILLE VERTE FISHBOWL vividly enamelled around the exterior with widely spreading gnarled branches of peony, variously in bud and in full bloom, divided by smaller branches of chrysanthemum and peony beneath the two biscuit animal-mask handles, all above a band of iron-red flame-pattern around the flaring foot, the shoulder with a narrow band of trellis-pattern embellished with gilt lotus and the waisted neck with floral cartouches reserved on a similar trellis-pattern ground enriched with chrysanthemum-heads, the interior painted with four large carp swimming amongst aquatic plants and smaller fish, below six cartouches of crustacea alternating with carp around the flat everted border reserved on an elaborate iron-red and gilt flower-pattern ground, the raised edge with a narrow band of whorl-pattern, Kangxi