Three ‘Dame au Parasol’ Plates Decorated in rouge-de-fer, underglaze blue, highlighted in gold, with the well-known scene of a lady walking in the shade of a parasol held by her attendant behind her, feeding three colourful waterbirds on the bank of a river, a floral border around the well and the rim with a honeycomb-pattern frieze washed in contrasting tones of rouge-de-fer and reserved with vignettes alternately enclosing figures and further birds. Period: Qianlong (1736‑1795), ca. 1738‑40. Diameter: 23.5 cm.