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QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF PAINTED ENAMEL DISHES
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Each dish is brightly enamelled and gilt with a shaped central panel enclosing butterflies and a bat in flight above a cluster of flowers, all surrounded by scrolling flowers. The cavetto is decorated with a cell-pattern band with cartouches enclosing butterflies, flowers and fruits. The exterior is decorated with five bats, wufu, and scrolling lotus, and five further bats surrounding a phoenix roundel to the base.
8 1/2 in. (21.5 cm.) diam. (2)
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Each dish is brightly enamelled and gilt with a shaped central panel enclosing butterflies and a bat in flight above a cluster of flowers, all surrounded by scrolling flowers. The cavetto is decorated with a cell-pattern band with cartouches enclosing butterflies, flowers and fruits. The exterior is decorated with five bats, wufu, and scrolling lotus, and five further bats surrounding a phoenix roundel to the base.
8 1/2 in. (21.5 cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
Acquired in the 1960s from Spink & Son Ltd., London
An English Private Collection
An English Private Collection
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