A set of five Chinese blue and white export porcelain octagonal plates, Qianlong (1736-1795), each decorated with an island tea house and a flight of birds within a plantain leaf band and willow tree and peony border, the underside with two simple branch meanders, fritted rims, 21.5cm wide and a set of three Nanking blue and white porcelain plates, 19th century, each decorated with a figure on a bridge before a pagoda island landscape within multiple borders of auspicious motifs and cell diapers, 22cm diameter (8)