Beschreibung:

A collection of fifteen Cantonese plates each painted with butterflies and birds among flowers on a celadon ground -- 10in diam max; a Cantonese dish painted with a central floral roundel with a duck swimming among lotus among shaped panels of figures on terraces and birds and butterflies among flowers upon a green gold scroll ground -- 10in diam; a polychrome dish painted with two birds perched on pierced rockwork above peony on a black ground -- 11in diam; a famille rose plate painted with scholars seated in a garden -- 8½in diam; a famille rose saucer painted with a vase and emblems -- 8in diam; two famille rose bowls -- 7in diam max; a Cantonese cylindrical box and domed cover with bamboo branch finial and handles, painted with butterflies in flight among birds and flowers -- 8in high; a similar tea-pot and flat cover -- 6½in high; a similar vase -- 3½in high; and an Imari circular box and domed cover painted with shaped panels of flowers -- 4½in diam; and a famille rose globular vase decorated and moulded with a procession of boys hiding behind a tree, on a green ground -- 7in high, with stands.