A 'famille-rose' butterfly vase mark of Guangxu, the globular body surmounted by a tall waisted neck, painted in iron-red and enamels with numerous butterflies in flight, divided by a frieze of detached stylised lotus sprays and shou characters around the shoulders, above a raised gilt band, all between a yellow ground ruyi -head border below the rim and upright lappets around the base, the base inscribed in iron-red with a six-character mark, 39 cm high
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- Frieze - An architectural term denoting the flat, shaped or convex horizontal surface of furniture, between the architrave and the cornice, usually found on a cabinet or bookcase, or on desks and tables where it may include drawers, the area between the top and the legs. In ceramics, the term refers to the banding, of usually a repeating pattern, on the rims of plates and vases.
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