FIVE PARIS (DARTE) PLATES painted with figures playing cards, peasants in traditional dress, an alchemist in his laboratory and a girl and a fortune teller before a spiral staircase within blue borders with various gilt foliage, scroll and flower ornament (one with a hairline crack, retouching to enamels), black and iron-red stencilled and fish marks; another Paris (Simon) plate painted with a couple in Medieval dress before a castle within a blue border with gilt foliage (retouching to enamels), iron-red stencilled mark; and another Paris (Vanson) plate painted with men in a tavern smoking pipes within an elaborate blue and gilt border (retouching to enamels), iron-red stencilled mark, circa 1820