Lot description
of well potted bulbous form tapering to a short waisted neck and a flared mouth, flanked by a pair of feathery acanthus handles, the lower bulb finely and meticulously painted in 'famille-rose' enamels with four diapers embellished with gilt, each reserved on a yellow ground and framed within feathery acanthus leaves, separated by further diaper motifs and reserved on a white ground deftly incised through the enamelling with scroll patterns, set between bands of ornately decorated pomegranate scrolls and diapers reserved on a warm ruby sgraffiato-ground, the waist with a band of interlinking floral coins above lotus lappets, the upper bulb similarly decorated with diapers framed within acanthus scrolls above further alternating pomegranate scrolls and bats, all below a floral band at the rim and pendant trefoils, the interior and base turquoise, with a central square reserved in white on the base for the six-character seal mark in iron-red
