Description With a bulbous body with everted rim, the shoulder appllied to each side with a biscuit lion-mask with ring handles, the body decorated in underglaze-blue with peony and prunus branches and butterflies, to the border with four cartouches containing landscapes.
Dimensions Diameter 59 cm; height 42 cm
Literature For the form compare Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel, Porzellan aus China und Japan, die Porzellangalerie der Landgrafen von Hessen-Kassel, exhib. cat., Berlin 1990, no. 154 and George C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, London 1927, plate LIII
Provenance Private collection, Italy
Notes VAT: Margin scheme