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Three Straits Chinese Dinner Plates

Each of these three famille rose plates is finely enamelled with a pheonix perched on ornamental rockwork beside pink and blue peonies, framed by a border of lotus and Buddhistic emblems and a scalloped, gilded rim. The reverse of each is decorated with detached floral sprigs.

This trio most probably belonged to a set of porcelain commission from China by a wealthy Malacca or Singapore

baba family for an elaborate wedding.

Each has a Kuang-hsu or Guangxu (1875-1908) reign mark to the base.