Chinese Enameled Porcelain Fish Basin

Chinese polychrome enamel decorated fish basin, Qing dynasty, the tapering ovoid body painted in a famille verte palette with four large reserves, two of auspicious emblems and scholar's objects separating a landscape panel and the last of carp and other aquatic denizens, all on a dense ground of scrolling leafy tendrils scattered with blossoms and dragons, a band of lappets at the base, the everted rim above a ruyi-lappet band decorated en suite (star crack), 14''h