A famille-rose enameled basin with roundel decorations


Late Qing/Republic periodPainted in opaque enamels with a lotus and tendril pattern on the canted rim and symbols of the Eight Immortals combined with floral and geometric roundels across the interior walls, the bamboo clumps on the exterior walls drawn in iron red and all surfaces except the foot pad covered with a colorless glaze (rim chip).13 3/8in (34.2cm) diameter