A group of six blue and white export plates and bowls17th-18th century
Including a pair of dishes with foliate rims, intricately painted with bands of flower-petal reserves on the canted rim and well, a flaming pearl mark on the recessed base (rim frits); the third an octagonal-sectioned deep bowl with flowering branch reserves on the faceted walls and flower sprays within the convex lotus petal band above the foot (chipped); the fourth a deep bowl with foliate rim and concave lotus petal band rising from the foot, painted with dense flower panels, a cash-patterned diaper band and a qi yu bao ding zhi zhen mark on the recessed base; and two wide bowls with similar diamond diaper bands and flower sprays on the interior, the smaller bowl painted with figures, the larger with a landscape (both repaired).
8 to 9 1/8in (20.3 to 23cm) diam.