A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with two quails. Yongzheng period.

Delicately enamelled to the centre with two quails on a grassy mound beside prunus, chrysanthemum, peony and bamboo within a yellow spearhead pattern border, surrounded in bianco-sopra-bianco with bamboo, prunus and chrysanthemum sprays in bianco-sopra-bianco below the cracked-ice pattern rim enriched with flower-heads and floral cartouches.

A Chinese famille rose-verte charger decorated with two horses. Yongzheng period.

Brightly enamelled with a central scene of two horses gambolling, one a piebald in iron-red with gilt and white enamel speckles and one in pink and ruby enamel, beneath a large willow tree amongst rockwork, lingzhi fungus and flowers, encircled in the cavetto by cash and lozenge reserves on green and pink-diaper grounds with gilt […]