Polychrome and gilded chinoiserie charger

Painted with a Chinese dignitary wearing a blue, gold and iron-red robe, seated on a manganese and green throne before a beaker vase of flowering prunus, a large jar and a censer, with a dragonsnake at his feet, and giving an audience to two warriors, one holding a sword, the other a scabbard and a tall fan, all within a border of chrysanthemum blossoms, foliate scrolls and flames interrupted by four ruyi heads issuing peony sprigs on either side of narrow panels decorated with grotesque masks flanked by further ruyi-heads and alternating with four blue- and gilt-edged lappets centering various arrangements of small tables, vases, jars and othervessels, the slightly scalloped and barbed edge encircled by a gilt line, and the underside of the rim painted in blue with branches of peaches or flowering prunus within four ruyi-shaped lappets alternating with smaller branches of peonies within lines encircling the rim edge and footrim.