the deep rounded sides rising from a short straight foot, brightly enamelled around the exterior with two large shaped cartouches enclosing figures in a lakeside pavilion, divided by two similar smaller cartouches and all reserved on a dense honeycomb ground, the interior with a bamboo medallion enclosing a large basket of flowers, all encircled at the rim by an elaborate leafy scrolling grapevine band, 28.7cm diameter

Provenance: Acquired from Polly Latham Asian Art, Boston, Massachusetts, 6 December 1998.

清十八世纪 粉彩大碗