GILT-DECORATED FAMILLE ROSE 'GOURD' DISH QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 清 醬地粉彩描金‘福祿壽喜’瓜瓞綿綿盤 the interior finely painted with various small leafy gourds on tendrils against a brown-glazed ground highlighted in gilt-paint, the exterior adorned with four roundels respectively inscribed with Fu (Luck), Lu (Wealth), Shou (Longevity), and Xi (Happiness) against a yellow ground with continuous key-fret pattern, all between ruyi-headed bands below the mouth rim and on the foot, the base painted with a qin musical instrument and ruyi with ribbons (17.3cm diameter) Qty: (1) Provenance: Formerly in a private French collection