A pair of famille rose, shallow dishes, Yongzheng period (1723-1735) © Christie's Image 2003

With upright sides and painted in delicate enamels, one with an elderly man surrounded by boys pointing at two bats, the other with two scholars and an attendant, both with a brush, ink cake and sceptre mark in underglaze blue within a double circle on the base - 6 3/8in. (16.2cm.) diam. (2). Lot 365. Estimate $5,000 - $7,000. Price Realized $5,019 

Notes: Compare the famille rose shallow dish painted in a similar style in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, vol. 39, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 74, no. 64. 

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 September 2003, New York, Rockefeller Plaza