A Canton enamel tray with foliate rim, decorated to the centre with a long-tailed pheasant perched on pierced blue rockwork, with further birds in flight above and perched among flowering magnolia and tree peony, within a border of shaped floral cartouches on a yellow ground reserved with cell-pattern -- 19¼in.diam., 18th century.

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A Canton enamel tray with foliate rim, decorated to the centre with a long-tailed pheasant perched on pierced blue rockwork, with further birds in flight above and perched among flowering magnolia and tree peony, within a border of shaped floral cartouches on a yellow ground reserved with cell-pattern -- 19¼in.diam., 18th century.

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