Service, Guangzhou, 19th century, painted to the centres with bird on a rock with peony spray, flanked by six cusped cartouches, five of which contain similar motifs including butterflies, the sixth enclosing a smaller cusped oval panel with a nasta'liq inscription in the name of Nasr al-Din Shah, surmounted by two heraldic lion and sun motifs which flank the Qajar crown, all on a gold ground profusely strewn with flowers and Persian lotus, 24.5cm and 24.9cm diam (2) Provenance: The Property of a Gentleman The nasta'liq inscription reads, Sultan ibn Sultan, Khaqan ibn Khaqan, Nasr al-Din Shah Qajar.Compare with a very similar plate in the Nadler Collection at The Winterthur Museum, Delaware, USA. For a discussion of Cantonese export wares for the Qajar market, see Daniel Nadler, Chinese export porcelain with Arabic inscriptions, in Antiques, March 2000, pp. 464-73.清19世纪 广彩描金墨书伊斯兰文盘两件拍品来源:英国绅士收藏
Condition Report minor wear to gilding and enamels but overall in nice condition with no repairs, chips or cracks