A pair of Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated saucer dishes Qianlong 1736-95

A pair of Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated saucer dishes Qianlong 1736-95, with original anhua decoration of scaly dragons amidst ruyi cloud scrolls, over-enamelled with a single large flower spray within smaller scattered stems, and a Chinese bowl thickly enamelled in the famille rose palette with butterflies and peony to the interior, the exterior with two vignettes of a figure in a window watching an amorous couple in a garden landscape, the original underglaze blue borders highlighted with flowerheads in yellow, blue, red and green, pseudo four character mark in iron red, 15.8cm max. (3)

Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, nos. 556 and 824.

Illustrated: Helen Espir, European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain, p.112, pl.48 for the bowl.