A YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN SPITOON, China, Republic period (1912-1949)

h cm 7,3

The globular body rests on a short ring foot and rises to a tapering neck with a flared rim; it is continuously decorated against a yellow ground with magpies in flight and perched among branches of plum trees and flowering buds; the base bears an apocryphal four-character Tongzhi Emperor mark in iron red.

民国   黄地粉彩喜鹊登梅渣斗