Chinese Silver Dragon Bowl with Floral and Avian Motifs

A Chinese silver bowl, 19th/20th century, with quatrelobed…
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A Chinese silver bowl, 19th/20th century, with quatrelobed rounded sides springing from a splayed notched foot, incurved to the quatrefoil lipped rim, the sides decorated in relief with a dragon flanked by flowering chrysanthemum and blossoming prunus trees, with an owl and bird in flight and a stork wading among iris with its mate in flight above, the base stamped 90 HM and character mark, weight 962 gms, 20 cm diameter

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  • Quatrefoil - A stylised four-circle design, itself contained within a larger circle, with Gothic origins and often seen as window designs in ecclesiastical architecture. The use of the motif was popular in Gothic Revival furniture of the 19th century.

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