Fish basin, China, Qing dynasty, Guangxu period (1874-1908), porcelain with onglaze and underglaze painting and gold paint, inside and in the centre iron-red gold fish between water plants (waterweed, frogbit, arrowhead, etc.).), on the lip and as motif frames of the outer wall flower tendrils and butterflies, the wall shows four large motif windows: twice a pair of birds between a pink peony vine and pomegranates (wish for abundant offspring), a palace scene with official and frond bearers and a garden scene with official in a pavilion surrounded by court ladies, six-character mark daqing guangxu nianzhi, h. 25 cm, d.32 cm