A BLUE AND WHITE 'DIVING-BIRDS' OVAL TUREEN AND COVER, with cross-laced handles with vine-relief terminals, the double-domed cover with lotus-bud finial painted with a lakescape depicting an elaborate pavilion on a promontory beside twinned pine and deciduous trees above a scholar crossing a single-arched bridge towards a second pavilion below dwellings on a smaller island in the distance, the borders with cartouches of ribboned emblems, circa 1816