A LARGE CHINESE PAINTED ENAMEL BASIN QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Finely and delicately painted at the centre with five pairs of birds including phoenix, cranes, mandarin ducks, love-birds, and long-tailed birds, within a lavender-blue-ground well with numerous bats in flight amongst scrolling lotus, the wide floral, yellow-ground, everted rim reserved with three floral cartouches alternating with dragon roundels, the blue underside with similar dragons 17 ¾ in. (45 cm.) diameter Provenance The basin: Hugh Moss Ltd., London, where acquired 10 June 1977. The ewers: Mallett, London, where acquired, 12 June 1975.
A LARGE CHINESE PAINTED ENAMEL BASIN QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Finely and delicately painted at the centre with five pairs of birds including phoenix, cranes, mandarin ducks, love-birds, and long-tailed birds, within a lavender-blue-ground well with numerous bats in flight amongst scrolling lotus, the wide floral, yellow-ground, everted rim reserved with three floral cartouches alternating with dragon roundels, the blue underside with similar dragons 17 ¾ in. (45 cm.) diameter Provenance The basin: Hugh Moss Ltd., London, where acquired 10 June 1977. The ewers: Mallett, London, where acquired, 12 June 1975.
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