Five Chinese famille rose plates, all 18th Century, includin...

Hammer

£460

Five Chinese famille rose plates, all 18th Century, including an armorial plate, 22.5cm; Mandarin style gilded plate, 23cm; a plate decorated with seated figures in a sopra bianco border, 23cm diameter; and two peony patterned plates, 23.5cm and 23cm

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The mandarin plate has some wear to the enamels in the centre from stacking. There is some wear to the gilt details at the rim, otherwise good.
The armorial plate has wear to the gilt from the shield arms in the centre, some rubbing marks. The odd tiny rim frit.
The plate with birds has two star cracks to the base and slight wear to the enamels.
The other famille rose plate has some rubbing to the enamels in the centre but is otherwise good.
The sopra bianco plate has rubbing to the centre erasing some of the inner border details. It also has an imperceptible hair crack.