FOUR FAMILLE VERTE DISHES, 17TH CENTURY

The group comprises: a circular dish decorated with Liu Hai tempting the Three Legged Toad with a string of cash; a foliate dish decorated to the centre with a twin-fish and petal-shaped panels enclosing peonies, the reverse with an apocryphal Chenghua mark; a foliate dish decorated with peony and bamboo growing from pierced rocks, the rim is decorated with various flowers, the reverse with a fu mark in underglaze blue; and a small square-section dish decorated with blossoming branched flowers.
The larger, 8.1/2 in. (21.3 cm.) diam.