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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
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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
$20,000–30,000
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's, London, 12 May 1992, Lot 119.
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.
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