Description:
Chinese export porcelain scalloped soup plate in rose, blue, iron red, purple, yellow, green, turquoise, white, and black enamels and gilding with a crysthanthemum bouquet in blue cornocopia-like flourish. Around the top of cavetto, scrolled band of gilt (now gone) edged in iron red. Rim decoration is rose and gilt rocaillerie, rose blossoms, and gilt leaves. Edge is scrolled moulded with a gilt band. Brownish underglaze enamel along flared edge.

Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain

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