A PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN FISH BOWLS, ON GILTWOOD STANDS

Lot 75
25.02.2021 06:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 35 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 75 | A PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN FISH BOWLS, ON GILTWOOD STANDS
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
Each with circular rim decorated with rosettes and floral cartouches against a blue ground with dark blue clouds above a border with flowering lotus and cherry blossom branches and a frieze with further flowering branches emerging from rocky outcrops flanked by a pair of unglazed lion mask handles, the interior to one finely painted with gilt, iron red, pink fish amongst seaweeds and flora and traces of a paper label marked 'ACCORSI PIETRO...', the other similar smaller fish and crustaceans, each on a profusely carved rocaille giltwood and gesso stands
16 in. (41 cm.) high; 23 in. (58 cm.) diameter, the bowls
163/4 in. (42.5 cm.) high; 23 in. (58 cm.) diameter, the stands

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