A SET OF EIGHT BLUE AND WHITE FLOWER-SHAPED DISHES, each painted with insects in flight above a cicada perched on a fruit spray beside peony and chrysanthemum issuing from pierced rockwork in the central roundel below nine radiating petal-shaped panels containing swimming ducks, birds perched on prunus and willow, peony and fruit sprays; and a pair of dishes, very similarly painted but omitting the cicadas, encircled yu (jade) marks, (all with minute rim chips), Kangxi

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A SET OF EIGHT BLUE AND WHITE FLOWER-SHAPED DISHES, each painted with insects in flight above a cicada perched on a fruit spray beside peony and chrysanthemum issuing from pierced rockwork in the central roundel below nine radiating petal-shaped panels containing swimming ducks, birds perched on prunus and willow, peony and fruit sprays; and a pair of dishes, very similarly painted but omitting the cicadas, encircled yu (jade) marks, (all with minute rim chips), Kangxi
22.5cm. diam. (10)

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