Two famille verte porcelain plaques


Late Qing/Republic periodEach of square shape with an 'orange peel' surface to the glazed porcelain ground; one painted with a scholar, his wife and child surrounded by ladies and other children in a walled garden pavilion; the other with the same scholar observing farmers in a rice paddy while his wife and child walk on a path alongside a paddler and ox herd.12 1/8 x 12 3/8in (31 x 31.5cm)