A famille-rose lotus petal dish seal mark and period of Qianlong

delicately potted, the rounded sides of the exterior finely painted with three rows of overlapping pink lotus petals with puce veins, radiating from a short lime-green stippled foot reminicent of a lotus pod, the dots repeated below the rim with two rows in pink reserved against a lemon-yellow ground, all between gilt painted mouth and foot rims, the interior and base glaze white, the underside with a six-character reign mark

The dish is in very good condition with only minor retouching to minute areas of loss to the gilding on the rim.
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