A GROUP OF FAMILLE-ROSE 'FIGURAL' DISHES AND CUPS QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY |

comprising a dish with women admiring an arriving scholar-official; an enameled dish with alternating scenes of court life and birds and flowers; two 'Mandarin palette' dishes with travelers; an enameled and gilt bowl illustrating elite domestic life; an enameled tea bowl and saucer with boys chopping wood; two 'Mandarin palette' and gilt 'figural' tea bowls and saucers; three enameled and gilt 'figural' tea bowls (14)

the dish with underglaze blue with a rim chip, frits and a hairline crack; the famille verte dish with a rim chip, three hairline cracks and kiln grit adhered to the base; the mandarin palette dishes are in good condition; the bowl with a long hairline crack from rim and across the base; the woodcutters cup and saucer with frits and chips to rims, three of the cups in good condition and one with chips to the rim; all with wear to gilt decoration
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