A MASSIVE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE FISH BOWL

19TH CENTURY

The deep ovoid body painted with alternating rectangular and shaped panels between bands of ruyi-heads and lappets, each enclosing a pair of birds perched amongst peony, chrysanthemum and pine, with butterflies in flight around them, all reserved on a prunus-decorated cracked-ice ground, with further prunus decoration to the rim, 53.5cm.