Wednesday, January 13, 2010

A large beautiful bowl with birds and bats motif


A beautifully crafted large bowl measuring nine and three tenths (9 3/10) inches depicting the 4 seasons. Each of the 4 paintings (in the window) had different bird motifs sitting or flying around the blossoms. Besides these birds motif are 4 separate bats motif. The whole of the bowl is inscribed with red, yellow and white design.

At the ream of the bowl is a gold lining, set on a yellow background with blue curvy wave-like design.

At the base of the bowl are 4 characters depicting that of Yongzheng period.

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