M3917

A pair of semi-eggshell Chinese export porcelain cups and saucers painted with six panels of alternating white and pink flowers, the saucers with a central medallion with a large flowerhead repeated in the well of the cups, all on a black enamel ground with leaves and flowers.

Cups 7.4cm diameter, 4cm high, saucers 11.5cm diameter, 2cm high.

Qianlong, 1736-1795.

Chinese porcelain famille rose saucer dish, painted with the scene ‘Under the Arbour’ with a seated lady and attendants beside a topiary version of a Western architectural garden arch with children at the front and ducks swimming in a pond, framed by foliage, encircled by twelve reserves of butterflies, insects, fruit and flowers on a green-enamel diaper ground with iron-red shells and flowerheads, the underside with an iron-red and purple enamel pendant band.

9 5/8 inches, 24.5 cm diameter.

Early Qianlong, circa 1738.

A Chinese export porcelain grisaille and gilt decorated Jesuit plate with a scene of the resurrection with an elaborate Rococo border.

8 7/8 inches, 22.5 cm diameter.

Qianlong, circa 1750.