A PAIR OF JESUIT CANTON ENAMEL SMALL SAUCER DISHES 18TH CENTURY Each painted with European figures in a pastoral setting, the scenes most likely depicting scenes from the life of Christ, one depicting the Holy Family with the infant Saint John the Baptist and another figure in a landscape, the other, one of the figures shows an orb surmounted by a cross to a young Christ within foliate scroll borders, the exterior decorated with prunus blossoms on a blue, 'cracked ice' ground and the base with a spray of prunus blossoms and pomegranate, small chips to enamel--4 3/4 in. (12cm.) diam. (2)
A PAIR OF JESUIT CANTON ENAMEL SMALL SAUCER DISHES 18TH CENTURY Each painted with European figures in a pastoral setting, the scenes most likely depicting scenes from the life of Christ, one depicting the Holy Family with the infant Saint John the Baptist and another figure in a landscape, the other, one of the figures shows an orb surmounted by a cross to a young Christ within foliate scroll borders, the exterior decorated with prunus blossoms on a blue, 'cracked ice' ground and the base with a spray of prunus blossoms and pomegranate, small chips to enamel--4 3/4 in. (12cm.) diam. (2)
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