R9943/4

Pair of Chinese porcelain café au lait ground fencai, famille rose enamelled large saucer dishes, each painted with a central group of flowering orchids issuing from rockwork between branches of bamboo and flowering prunus, beneath butterflies in flight and a branch of flowering chrysanthemum, all within a gilt rim, the reverse with four groups of lingzhi  fungus amongst grass also on a café au lait ground.
9 5/8 inches, 24.5 cm diameter.
The bases with six-character sealmarks of Daoguang in iron-red and of the period, 1821-1850.

米黃地梅蘭竹菊圖盤一對　清道光　大清道光年制款　唐紹儀舊藏

Whampoa the deep water anchorage on the Pearl River about eight miles downstream from Canton where the East Indiamen lay at anchor during the four month trading season, the view is taken from Dane’s Island looking towards Wampoa Island with its two pagodas.

A complete China Trade gouache and watercolour album in original silk binding, probably by the Tinqua studio, 49 leaves, with a German inscription, Looling Hong, Shanghai, March 1861, and a further inscription Dortmund, December 1935.

A Chinese export porcelain famille rose cream jug and cover, heightened in iron-red and gilt, painted with three figures on a rooftop looking out over a bay with ships and a walled city in the distance, after a Meissen design, all in a shaped panel with gilt border amongst leaf scrolls in puce and iron-red, beneath a further gilt band on the rim, the cover with two European river landscape scenes after Meissen and similarly decorated.

4 1/2 inches, 11.4 cm high.

Qianlong, circa 1750.