A pair of Cantonese oval meat dishes one painted and gilt with a central scene of ladies and children at leisure in a garden overlooking a river landscape, some ladies playing musical instruments, others reading, the other with scholars and attendants on a terrace practising calligraphy, drinking and playing go, all within borders of butterflies among scattered flowersprays -- 14¼in. (36cm) wide, (some wear to enamels and gilding).