A large 'famille-rose' basin, mark of Guangxu, stoutly potted of shallow cylindrical form, the straight sides rising to a broad everted mouth with grooved galleried rim, painted on the interior with a pair of cranes standing among flowering lotus plants, encircled with alternating peony branches on the sides and repeated on the exterior, below a frieze of bats and clouds around the rim, the base inscribed in iron-red with a six-character mark within spur marks, 41.5 cm diameter
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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.
- Everted - An everted rim is an outwardly turning or flaring outwards rim, as seen the rims on jugs, vases, bowls and dishes.
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