A MASSIVE CHINESE WUCAI 'SCHOLARS' SCROLL BOWL

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

The ovoid body painted in enamels, gilt and underglaze blue with Immortals, scholars and their assistants in a landscape enjoying tea, appreciating scrolls and travelling on horseback, the shoulder with a key fret band and the rim with floral panels on a diaper ground, the top of the rim with birds, insects, fruit and flower sprays, 53.5cm.

Provenance: formerly an English private collection, Oxfordshire.