White porcelain bowl enamelled in the famille rose style with a decoration of characters, China, 19th centuryThe scene continues showing two women in a garden in front of bamboos, a woman sitting on a bench with a child and a man, a woman under a banana tree and a man standing on a terrace, a child and a seated woman playing the flute in a pavilion and a man standing in front of a large screen. The inner border is decorated with a frieze of flowering scrolls and cartouches with sparrows, ducks, egrets and magpies. In the background, lotus flowers. Height: 8.5 cm; diameter: 20.5 cm