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