Punch bowl

A Chinese porcelain punch bowl painted in famille rose enamels and gilt. With rounded, rising sides. Painted outside with four groups of roses and tulips, peonies and iris, and two more with chrysanthemums and peonies; a gilt ring round the foot. Inside is a spray with peony and orchid; and at the rim, a scrolling border in iron-red and gilt.

Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume II.