Porcelain bowl ‘Branches, bird and poem’, Qing dynasty

A circular porcelain bowl with a slightly flaring mouth and a rounded body resting on a small circular foot. 

The mouth is decorated with a fine gilt rim, while the body shows, on the front side, a beautiful scene in coloured enamels, with a large tree branch in flower, on which small sparrows with wings are resting. On the back is a poem with a signature ‘金品卿作’ and seal. On the base shows a seal in underglaze blue ‘大清同治年製’. 

Height: 6.5 cm; Diameter: 15 cm