A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE DISH AND A DOUCAI BOWL

A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE DISH AND A DOUCAI BOWL

18TH CENTURY

The dish painted with two beauties and a deer standing beneath a flowering tree, with ruyi-heads and large floral sprays encircling the scene, the bowl rising from a short foot to an everted rim, decorated to the interior and exterior with stylised flowering branches, with areas of detail highlighted in gilt, 38.5cm and 26.5cm. (2)

Provenance: The Vyne, Sherborne St John, Basingstoke.