Two 'Rose Medallion' export porcelain punch bowls


19th centuryThe larger bowl carefully painted in gilt and bright enamels of the famille rose palette with shaped reserves of scholars, beauties and attendants in architectural settings alternating with reserves of birds and insects hovering around flowering and fruiting branches, all separated by gilt-ground bands enameled with flowers and scrolling tendrils, fruit and insects encircling the exterior walls and filling the wide curving well; the smaller bowl displaying similar but more simply rendered subject matter with the addition of black C-scrolls framing the reserves in the border bands along both sides of the rim.15 and 13in (38 and 33cm) diameter