A FINE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE BLUE-GROUND FISHBOWL

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A FINE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE BLUE-GROUND FISHBOWL
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Enamelled around the body with two large leaf-shaped panels enclosing a brightly coloured terraced garden scene with two ladies and a boy at play, divided by two lion-mask ring handles and two smaller star-shaped panels with lotus plants, all reserved on a blue ground with gilt 'cracked-ice' and prunus-blossoms design, all between geometric and floral bands at the shoulder and foot, the interior enamelled and gilt with carp among aquatic plants, the large flat rim with a copper-red and gilt trellis-pattern ground and eight chrysanthemum flowers
23½in. (60cm.) diam., wood stand

Lot Essay

Compare the very similar fishbowl, on an elaborate George II style giltwood stand, sold in our New York Rooms, 2nd June, 1994, lot 415; and the pair of similar fishbowls, decorated with panels of flowers on the body rather than figures, sold in these Rooms, 12th June 1978, lot 86, and illustrated in colour by A. du Boulay, op.cit., p.271, fig.3.

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