A Chinese blue and white fish dish and strainer and four blue and white dishes

A Chinese blue and white fish dish and strainer and four blue and white dishes
Qianlong (1736-1795)
The fish dish and strainer decorated with a medallion of a large peony in a fenced garden, a bird hovering above, 42 cm. diam.; a similarly painted charger, 44.5 cm. diam.; a deep dish painted with peony and bamboo on a fenced terrace, the rim painted with a composite border, 41.4 cm. diam.; an octagonal dish decorated with 'scholar's attributes' in a flowering garden, 36.5 cm. diam.; and an oblong serving dish painted with scattered flower-sprays wihin a composite border at the rim, rim chip and hairline crack, 42 cm. long, minor frits (5)