A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE PLATES, the oxidized silver 'antimony' ground of the rim reserved with alternating panels of flowers in lilac enamel and iron-red cartouches pencilled in gilding with flower-sprays, the centre with a medallion depicting an attendant holding a basket beside a parrot on a perch watching a lady dressing her hair in a chignon seated before a circular mirror on a bamboo table, reserved on a grisaille diaper-ground enriched with stylized foliate scrolls in pink enamels (one plate with star crack, one plate with small rim chip), Yongzheng