A DUTCH DELFT SHAPED OVAL 'CHINOISERIE' PLAQUE, painted in blue, green, yellow and overglaze red with a slender lady and her female servant (meiren) on a terrace surrounded with a large flowervase, a dragon and birds of paradise, the rim modelled in relief, dark-blue to the outside and a band of leaves to the inside, circa 1740 (pierced for hanging) 38 cm wide See illustration