A Chinese famille rose-decorated enameled "Lotus" bowlGuangxu mark and of the periodExterior decorated with a continuous band of multi-coloured flowering lotus plants rising from a border of cresting waves above the foot, encircled by a narrow key-fret band, interior painted in underglaze blue with a large lotus flower from which issues four large lotus leaves in the central medallion below a wide band of lotus scroll with similar leaves in the well. D: 6 in.PROVENANCE:Wilson's Auction, Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, circa 1982 Acquired from the above by the present owner