the centre decorated with a pair of figures on a bridge before a riverscape with a small building and pagoda, the foreground with a rocky outcrop issuing flowerheads, the cavetto with X-shaped diaper border, the rim with four sprays of flowers, blue-line border, fritting and minor firing faults, 23cm diameter; and another Chinese Export blue and white plate, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, the centre painted with The Three Friends before a rocky outcrop within double blue-line borders, the rim loosely painted with stylised bamboo and foliage, minor firing faults to the rim, 23cm diameter