PERIOD: 18th century
A CHINESE EXPORT OVAL SOUP TUREEN, COVER AND STAND CIRCA 1750 each painted on one side with a gilt kingfisher perched on a flowering peony branch, and on the other with a gilt duck flying toward another perched amidst lotus, the rim with a gilt meandering floral vine border, the ends of the tureen with gilt-heightened iron-red pug's-head handles, and the cover with a similarly colored recumbent dog knop.
PRIX: $12000