Five porcelain bowls and dishes with 'famille rose' decoration from a service made for Ma'sud Mirza Zill al-Sultan, China and Persia, dated 1297 AH/1879-80 AD

comprising five bowls of varying sizes with matching dishes, each with a porcelain body decorated with bright, polychrome colours and lobed medallions containing alternating figural scenes and floral bouquets with birds and butterflies on a ground of lotus blossoms, the dishes each with an inscriptive medallions at their centre and the bowls with inscriptive medallions along the external rim

All in good condition, intact, bright, one dish with slight hairline crack near rim, the largest dish with old collection label to underside, the smallest bowl dated 1301 AH/1883 AD (probably used as a replacement), some with some fading and ware to decoration as consistent with age, as viewed.
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