R9841/2

A pair of Chinese porcelain famille rose square dishes painted with the Yang family lady equestrians, each on a different coloured horse, riding through an archway and a vine-covered arbour, while three gentlemen look on from a terrace, the raised rim decorated in the corners with books and scrolls in iron-red and gilt, tied with ribbons on octagonal pink diaper ground with flowerheads, the bases unglazed.

10 ⅛ inches, 25.7 cm square.

Yongzheng, 1723-1735.

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, fencai hexagonal openwork jardinière, with each facet painted on a central roundel with different figures including a seated scholar holding a wine cup between a wine jar and a rockwork bonsai, a standing scholar or immortal holding a long staff beside a crane and beneath a bat, a scholar and his attendant holding a wrapped qin, a seated scholar reaching for his wine jar beneath a bat in flight, and a standing figure with bats emerging from his mouth beside wine jars and an altar table with books and a fisherman carrying his rod and fish basket over his shoulder, all on honeycomb or cash openwork grounds, with elaborate borders of stylised flowerheads each with a puce and blue enamel shou character roundel in the corners and between bands of keyfret and scroll and above bracket feet, the flat everted rim with a further diaper band and stylised roundels.

10 ¼ inches, 26 cm diameter; 6 7/8 inches, 17.5 cm high.

Yongzheng, 1723-1735.