Description THREE CHINESE EXPORT DISHES, 17TH/18TH CENTURY the first, with a central stand of pink and gilt flowers within a bank of alternating flowering blooms and pink foliate scroll, the reverse with four iron-red prunus, dia: 8.75 in.; the next, a famille verte example decorated with a central gnarled magnolia tree within a cell-patterned and floral cartouche band, the rims painted with four floral sprays, the reverse with two long flowering prunus sprays, dia: 8.75 in.; the third dish decorated in the famille rose palette, the central roundel filled with two quail nested in branches of flowers and bamboo within a wide band of alternating pink and brown patterns and shaped cartouches enclosing floral sprays, the reverse with four iron-red floral sprays, dia: 8.75 in. (3)
Provenance: The Tuleyries, Boyce, Virginia
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