A pair of Cantonese famille rose export plates one painted and gilt with a scene of figures in a fenced riverside garden among bamboo and rockwork watching ladies at a window playing musical instruments, the other with ladies and dignitaries on a terrace, all within sepia borders of butterflies and insects among peonies and fruitsprays -- 9 7/8in. (25cm) diam, (fritting and small chips to footrims).