A pair of 'famille-rose' Shou character dishes seal marks of Jiaqing each of saucer shape, painted in iron-red on the interior with the wufu encircling a central shou medallion, the exterior with a frieze of characters alternating in iron-red and lime-green enamel between a band of petals around the foot and ruyi heads below the gilt-edged lipped rim, the base inscribed in iron red with a six-character seal mark (2), 16.5 cm. Provenance: Kander's, Hong Kong, 10 October 1990