19th century or earlier, hand painted polychrome colors and gilding on porcelain, each with interior and exterior scenes of Chinese court life, interior rims with decoration of dragons amid swirling clouds chasing the flaming pearl, unmarked.

9 x 10.75 in. diameter

Private Collection of a Lady, Chapel Hill, NC

Good estate condition; repair or repainting to lower bottom rim of one; some loss to gilding along rim and interior lip on both; pigments and gilding on body remain in excellent condition.

$500 - 700