Lot 1788

Three Chinese porcelain dishes with moulded cavetto and scalloped rims decorated in underglaze blue, centrally depicting a scene of ducks amidst branches of blossoming peony and insects in the air, encircled by twelve alternating cartouches with butterflies and floral scenes, the rims glazed in brown, one dish with an artemisia leaf within a double circle, the other two with 'Yu' mark, meaning jade, within a double circle, the first with label No. 43, the other two with label No. 58, referring to the 1882 inventory, China, Kangxi period (1662-1722) -D. 16 cm, one with a piece restuck-