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: Or2004.077

: Eastern Art

: plate

: Octagonal plate in famille rose palette with overglaze enamels in black, orange, blue, pink, cream, ruby pink and gilding. Finely painted. Central motif of two cockerels, one sitting on a rock the other on the ground, flowering branches, lingzhi fungus and a butterfly, all encircled with a thin black band. Rim has continuous bamboo (?) pole enlaced with flowers.

: China, Eastern Asia, Asia

: Bequest of J O Thompson, through The Art Fund, 2004