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TWENTY-SIX BLUE AND WHITE 'CUCKOO-PATTERN' DISHES
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Each painted at the centre with a bird in flight above a peony issuing from rockwork gazing down at another bird through the window of a house within a border of elongated cartouches enclosing pine and bamboo reserved on a blue ground at the wide everted rim, comprising fourteen plates, rim chips, cracks, 9in. (22.5cm.) diam.; six large dishes, rim cracks, 16in. (41cm.) diam.; and six saucer-dishes, rim chips and cracks, 8¼in. (21cm.) diam. (26)
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Each painted at the centre with a bird in flight above a peony issuing from rockwork gazing down at another bird through the window of a house within a border of elongated cartouches enclosing pine and bamboo reserved on a blue ground at the wide everted rim, comprising fourteen plates, rim chips, cracks, 9in. (22.5cm.) diam.; six large dishes, rim cracks, 16in. (41cm.) diam.; and six saucer-dishes, rim chips and cracks, 8¼in. (21cm.) diam. (26)