Imperial Guangxu Emperor Mark And Period Famille Rose Bowl

The bowl well potted, with deep rounded sides rising from a slightly tapered foot, brightly enamelled to the exterior with court women and scholars engaging in leisurely pursuits, such as painting and conversing, amid flower vases, garden containers and a poetic inscription from the Tang Dynasty poem ‘A Song of Fair Ladies’, and translates to ‘with a dignified and refined air without article; their embroidered clothes glow in the dusk of spring’. Six-character Guangxu mark on the base.