Dimensions: Width: 15cm, Height: 6.5cm

Chinese Qing Dynasty Guangxu Famille Rose Butterfly Porcelain Bowl. The porcelain potted with a shallow body, slight deep, thick, flaring rim with angled cavetto elevated the steep sides upward the close mouth rim, raised on ring foot base slight concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white color which contrast against famille rose design color, depicted of abundant flying butterfly covered the surface. Butterfly considered in China as also a bird. Symbol of conjugal bliss, of joy and of summer. From its homophony with the Chinese word die meaning the age of seventy or eighty, it is also an emblem of longevity. In Straits Chinese porcelain specifically, a pair of butterflies symbolizes the spirits of the forefathers. A butterfly or bird approaching a peony, a young man and the woman he loves.The Under-base bears a reign mark, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark. Made in The Years Guangxu Reign Period of The Great Qing Dynasty.

Over all in EXCELLENT condition.
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