A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE EROTIC EUROPEAN SUBJECT BOWL

C.1740

Painted in enamels and gilt with two large cartouches enclosing lovers in an amorous embrace, the scenes divided by smaller flower-shaped panels containing pairs of birds in flight amongst peony and rockwork, all surrounded by flowerheads set amidst foliage in underglaze blue, the interior with a mountainous landscape beneath a continuous floral scroll, the base with a paper label for the Hervou‡t Collection, no.193, 26cm.