261 . CHINESE EXPORT ROSE MANDARIN SQUARE BALUSTER VASE , circa 1830-40 , enameled front and back with figural vignettes bordered in gilt key fret , sides decorated with auspicious objects , fruiting and flowering sprays and butterflies , rim and foot with gilt ground lotus meander . Height 12 ¾ in . Width 4 in . Depth 4 in . 300 / 500
262 . CHINESE EXPORT ROSE MANDARIN BOTTLE VASE , circa 1830-40 , enameled with two large elliptical vignettes depicting courtly figures at various pursuits in richly appointed pavilions within gilt fret borders ; two subsidiary roundels with single figure at the sides ; all reserved from a ground painted with auspicious objects , fruits , flowers and butterflies , rim with gold-ground band of flowers , bird and butterfly . Height 15 in . Diameter 9 in . 500 / 700
263 . PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT ROSE CANTON PORCELAIN CUPS WITH SAUCERS , circa 1870 , with underglaze mark of Agustus Rex , all quatrefoil shaped and decorated with scenes of courtly figures ; gold-ground borders of butterflies and blossoms . Height cup 3 ½ in . Saucer 5 ½ in . 500 / 700 From the Starbuck East Brick , Nantucket
264 . THREE VARIOUS FAMILLE ROSE CABINET PLATES , 19 th Century , the largest decorated with butterflies and insects amid a robust bouquet of fruiting and flowering branches within gold-ground border of auspicious objects , fruits and blossoms . The smaller with roundel depicting birds perching on flowering branches issuing from stylized rocks within deep border enclosing eight Lingzhi-shaped reserves of sea creatures on floral sprays . The smallest with a thousand-butterfly border encircling a vignette of 3 elderly scholars taking refreshment seated at table and served by an attendant . Diameters respectively 9 ¾ in . 8 in . and 7 ¾ in . 500 / 750 From the Starbuck East Brick , Nantucket
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