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A VERY LARGE FAMILLE ROSE FISH BOWL
QIANLONG PERIOD, MID-18TH CENTURY
Enameled with fgures in a riverscape to each side within a shaped
cartouche, the sides with gilt scroll work and famille rose blossom heads
and fanked with applied lion’s head and loop ring handles, brightly
enameled inside with colorful fsh swimming amongst waterweeds
27 in. (68.6 cm.) diameter
$25,000-40,000
Porcelains of this size and scale were a challenge to pot and to fre,
and represented very expensive output. In China, as their decoration
indicates, they were used in gardens as miniature fshponds, while
when exported to Europe they became either massive jardinieres or
simply impressive
room decoration.
