M4045

A pair of Chinese imperial porcelain famille rose enamelled fencai saucer dishes, each brightly painted with the bajixiang, ribbon-tied with flowering branches in green, blue, pink, turquoise, white, aubergine and iron-red enamels encircling a stylised central lotus flower head and interlinked flower heads in lime green enamel, all within gilt rings, the underside with branches of stylised lotus, peony and peach flowers, with a peach and bud on elaborate scrolls.

6 inches, 15.3 cm diameter.

The underside with an underglaze blue six character mark of Tongzhi and of the period, 1862-1874.

A pair of  Chinese export porcelain famille rose octagonal plates painted in the centre with a stag running away from two chasing white hounds with black markings, beside a large tree amongst bushes, within an iron red border of petals with gilt scroll edging, the everted rim with eight panels enclosing alternating branches of roses and other flowers with white enamel flowering and fruiting branches, divided by grisaille octagonal diaper, the undersides plain.

8 1/2 inches, 21.6 cm diameter.

Qianlong, 1736-1795.

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.