A Chinese ruby ground plate painted with a scroll shaped panel of a cockerel before a dragonfly in a flowering garden -- 9in. (23cm) diam; a blue and white octagonal warming dish painted with boats before pavilions in a river landscape within geometric borders -- 10¾in. (27.2cm) wide; and a famille rose cafe-au-lait ground teabowl -- 3½in. (9cm.) diam, all 18th century. (3)