A famille rose moulded 'Lotus' cup, 'Qiuchao Bei'. Guangxu black-enamelled mark 19-20th century. The bowl is moulded and decorated as a lotus blossom with incised overlapping petals. The hollow stem is inscribed with black enamel reading Daqing Guangxu Sashisi nian Anhui Taihu fuji qiu cao jinian bei, which can be translated as '34th year of the Guangxu period of the great Qing, commemorative cup of the autumn harvest, near Taihu in Anhui'. Provenance: The Oliver & Pham collection, Melbourne. Dimensions: height 7.5 cm width 20 cm