An especially fine mid 19th century Chinese export Famille Rose/Famille Verte Rouleau shaped vase as a table lamp. The lamp with a Famille Verte tendril ground interspersed with Famille Rose flower heads. The decorative subject of Chinese figures known as “Farewelling the Visitor”, the subject in a C scroll frame. The sides of the lamp painted with birds and butterflies in flowering branches. The table lamp on a turned maple wood stand, water gilded.
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