A Chinese Export Famille-Rose and Grisaille-Decorated 'Landscape' Fish Bowl, Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng Period | 清雍正 粉彩粉地墨彩開光山水圖大缸配漆金木座

A Chinese Export Famille-Rose and Grisaille-Decorated 'Landscape' Fish Bowl, Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng Period

清雍正 粉彩粉地墨彩開光山水圖大缸配漆金木座

sturdily potted and of compressed globular form, the sides finely painted en grisaille with two shaped panels depicting riverscape scenes, reserved on a pink cracked-ice pattern ground interspersed with florets, the other two sides with lion-mask handles, all set on the splayed foot painted with a faux bois band, the interior painted with aquatic animals amongst waterweeds, with a late Victorian giltwood tripod stand 

width 22 1/2 in.; 57.1 cm