Ref: X9
Archive item - not for sale
Chinese famille rose shallow bowl with pierced border from the Rockefeller service, Jiaqing (1796-1820), in the 'Mandarin style' palette decorated in the centre with a man and a lady seated on a rock talking with a standing man holding a gourd looking at an ?dog flying in the sky , diameter:9 3/8 in. 24 cm. Pieces from a similar service are illustrated in Howard & Ayres, China for the West (fig 187), and also by Lloyd Hyde (fig 16, pl IX) SOLD