AN EXPORT PUNCHBOWL painted in iron-red, sepia, gilt and en grisaille at the centre of the interior with two long-tailed birds perched on a branch of peony beside a butterfly in flight, beneath a band of pendent lambrequins in the well and stylised floral motifs at the rim, the exterior with pairs of phoenix, cranes, ducks and long- tailed birds amongst peony and rockwork, the rim with a band of floral lozenges (cracked), Qianlong

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AN EXPORT PUNCHBOWL painted in iron-red, sepia, gilt and en grisaille at the centre of the interior with two long-tailed birds perched on a branch of peony beside a butterfly in flight, beneath a band of pendent lambrequins in the well and stylised floral motifs at the rim, the exterior with pairs of phoenix, cranes, ducks and long- tailed birds amongst peony and rockwork, the rim with a band of floral lozenges (cracked), Qianlong
38cm. diam.

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