A Chinese blue and white plate painted to the centre with scrolling peonies and chrysanthemums within a famille verte border decorated and gilt with shaped panels of cranes and deer alternating with further birds and lotus flowers and leaves -- 11¾in. diam, Qianlong; four Cantonese plates painted and gilt with panels of figures on terraces and birds and butterflies among flowers on green gold scroll grounds -- 8in. diam; and two shaped celadon dishes. (7)