China, 18th-19th century. The main sides neatly enameled and additionally painted above the glaze with garden scenes of noble ladies and their attendants amid blooming peonies and bamboo, sprays of lotus and prunus blossoms to the smaller sides.
Condition: Old wear, traces of use and minor abrasions, small firing crack, one small chip visibly repaired. Provenance: From the collection of Georg Weifert (1850-1937). Thence by descent in the same family. Weifert was a Serbo-Austrian industrialist and the first governor of the Federal Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.