A large Chinese famille rose punchbowl, Republic period (1912-1949), the rounded sides rising from a circular foot, painted with a continuous scene of five…

A large Chinese famille rose punchbowl, Republic period (1912-1949), the rounded sides rising from a circular foot, painted with a continuous scene of five boys in a garden, all holding objects symbolic of scholarly success and good fortune, two boys with ruyi sceptres, one carrying a spear tied with a ribbon suspending a chime, one with a vase with a stalk of grain and a lantern, and another holding a lantern in the shape of a fish, together with four other boys at play with a butterfly, the ba

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