QIANLONG
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Two famille rose large dishes
Qianlong
The first painted at the centre with a butterfly among sprays of peony and chrysanthemum, a ruyi-sceptre and an artemesia leaf, all within an iron-red and gilt spearhead border at the well, the broad rim with meandering flower-heads and foliage on a cell-pattern ground, 38.5 cm diam.; and a dish painted with two birds perched on rockwork between peony branches, surrounded on the well and rim with a composite trellis- and whorl-pattern border, 35 cm diam. (2)
Qianlong
The first painted at the centre with a butterfly among sprays of peony and chrysanthemum, a ruyi-sceptre and an artemesia leaf, all within an iron-red and gilt spearhead border at the well, the broad rim with meandering flower-heads and foliage on a cell-pattern ground, 38.5 cm diam.; and a dish painted with two birds perched on rockwork between peony branches, surrounded on the well and rim with a composite trellis- and whorl-pattern border, 35 cm diam. (2)