Oval decagonal salt celler with flowering lotus plants; Oval; ten-sided porcelain salt vessel with lobed edge; painted in underglaze blue and on the enamel red; pink; green and gold. The top with a lotus plant; the border with curl interspersed with stylized lotus flowers; the walls with curl and lotus flowers with two large and two small compartments with blooming lotus plants. A chip in the edge. European forms with famille rose.; anonymous; China; c. 1740 - c. 1760; Qing-dynasty (1644-1912) / Qianlong-period (1736-1795); porcelain (material); glaze; cobalt (mineral); gold (metal); vitrification; h 3.3 cm l 8.7 cm x w 7 cm l 8.5 cm x w 7.4 cm