Four Meissen porcelain Kakiemon plates and dishes, circa 1728-35

comprising: 

a moulded leaf-shaped dish, painted with a phoenix bird above flowering branches issuing from blue rockwork, and smaller sprigs, picked out in gilding,

a plate, painted with flowering branches issuing from rockwork with a small bird in flight above and pomegranates at the rim,

a plate, painted with banded hedges, flowering branches and a phoenix bird,

and a plate with shaped rim, painted with flowers issuing from rockwork, with a winged insect, brown edged rims, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, the plate with a phoenix bird with crossed swords mark in blue enamel

Length of leaf-shaped dish 32 cm; 12 ⅝ in