A Chinese export blue and white tureen and cover, 19th century,

of shaped rectangular form with canted corners, the body painted in underglaze blue with a continuous chinoiserie landscape depicting pagodas, figures and birds in flight within a river setting, raised on a spreading foot with a patterned border, the sides applied with moulded animal mask handles, the domed cover similarly decorated with floral and diaper-pattern bands, surmounted by a finial modelled as a stylised wave or scroll

33cm wide, 23cm deep, 23cm high