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Brush pot. Famille rose. The pot has straight, upright sides shaped in the form of two overlapping diamonds to give four wide vertical surfaces and four narrow ones. The wider sides are painted respectively with a pheasant perched on an outcrop of rockwork amongst sprays of flowering tree peony, a beetle among day lily and dianthus blooms, an aubergine butterfly hovering above chrysanthemum sprays, and a pale pink butterfly in flight near three poppies. Each of the narrower sides with a fourteen character poem written in black, and bearing the Qianlong seal mark in iron-red. All edged with a raised pale iron-red border decorated with a gilt scroll. The interior and base are glazed in turquoise. Seal mark of Qianlong in underglaze blue. Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilding, height 10.2 cm, width 13.5 cm. Qianlong Period (1736-1795).
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