A very impressive and very elegant pair of Chinese export porcelain square-shaped jardinieres, decorated in Famille Rose enamels, each side hand-painted with a very refined scene of courtly figures-most likely images from a famous legend or opera-and each vignette within a reserve, one shaped like a peach, one a pomegranate, the other two within roundels. The rest of the jardinieres, and their matching footed undertrays, lightly decorated with floating blossoms and flowering sprigs. Each measuring 10″ square including the undertray, and in very good condition with only a short line to the rim of one of the undertrays sealed, otherwise two very useful and very beautiful jardinieres with their original stands which can be used separately-the stands making fine bulb trays. Late 19th century.