A FAMILLE-ROSE 'BOY AND CHICKEN' CUP 民國 粉彩御題詩嬰戲杯 China, Republic period (1912-1948). painted on the exterior with a boy approaching a rooster, with a hen tending to two small chicks behind the rocks, inscribed with an imperial poem dated to the bingshen year of the Qianlong reign corresponding to 1776, the base inscribed with an apocryphal mark of Qianlong. H: 7cm

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