Each plate with central roundel delicately painted with similar scenes of two small boys at play within a fenced garden watched from nearby by a graceful lady clutching a fan and also by a gentleman seated in a house with another small boy on a terrace above, the rim with ladies in a garden setting participating in leisure pursuits of various types, the reverse with a single floral spray encircling the rim, the vase with a large double floral spray bending to form a circle. Diameter 25.5 cm.
Chips.
Compare with a plate of this type in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, Credit Line: Purchase by subscription, 1879, Object Number: 79.2.348.
Compare also a pair at the Smitosonian, Freer Gallery, The peacock room, Accession Number F1992.48.1 and 2.