A MASSIVE CHINESE FAMILLE-ROSE DISH, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD | 清乾隆 粉彩錦鷄花卉圖大盤

A MASSIVE CHINESE FAMILLE-ROSE DISH 

QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

清乾隆 粉彩錦鷄花卉圖大盤

painted in the center with a pair of pheasants perched on rockwork and flowering branches, surrounded by blooming peonies, roses, chrysanthemum and prunus, the rim reserved with shaped cartouches painted with Daoist emblems and lotus or peonies, reserved on a pink diaper-ground decorated with further stylized lotus and peony blooms 

diameter 21⅜ in.; 54.3 cm