Three Chinese famille-rose soup plates Qing Dynasty, 18th century

each painted with a central medallion enclosing a landscape with deer and two cranes, the well encircled by floral sprays and the rim with an iron-red and gilt foliate border; together with a pair of Chinese Imari dishes and an underglaze-blue and polychrome-decorated soup plate

All three soup plates were broken and repaired, there are associated minor losses to the rims and cracks which are restored. One of the dishes with a 5cm rim crack visible on both sides. The single soup plate with a three-point star crack to the base, visible on both sides, the longest branch measuring 6cm. There is a 0.4cm rim chip. All dishes with minor glaze firing imperfections and surface scratches.
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