M2963

A Chinese porcelain Large dish painted in famille rose enamels, the centre with a lobed medallion of a seated elegant lady, her robes richly painted in aubergine, green and blue enamels with iron-red and gilt, playing a qin on her lap between a large censer and two vases, one in blue and white enamel, in front of a chest of drawers supporting a stack of books, a gu-form vase with peacock feathers and coral branch, a gilt teapot and tea bowl, all beside two wutong trees, the cavetto with white-enamel scrolling foliate branches on a black cash-diaper ground, encircled by four purple-enamel reserves of flowering peony and four iron-red and gilt floral reserves, all on an oxidised antimony ground.

13 3/4 inches, 35 cm diameter.

Yongzheng/Qianlong, circa 1735.

Chinese imperial porcelain famille rose, fencai, “over the wall” bowl and cover, all painted with fruiting lychee branches and buds, around the sides and continuing over the rim, with sprays of bamboo and a butterfly, hovering on the interior and exterior.

Diameter 4 3/8 inches, 11.1 cm.

The base and cover with six-character seal mark of Daoguang and of the period, 1821-1850.

Chinese imperial porcelain fencai large thickly potted dish, finely painted with five-clawed iron-red and blue dragon on each side of a flaming gilt pearl, all amongst stylised ruyi-clouds and flames within a wide gilt band, the underside with an aubergine dragon and another iron-red dragon with two pearls amongst stylised clouds and flames.

13 ½ inches, 34.3 cm diameter.

The base with a six-character mark of Guangxu in iron-red and of the period, 1875-1908.