Two Chinese blue and white 'Romance of the Western Chamber' dishes

All three variously decorated, two with with the scene from the Romance of the Western Chamber (Xi Xiang Ji) where the two ladies on the terrace listen to the scholar play the qin, all below the moon, willow trees and scrolling clouds, two of the dishes with two leaf sprays to the reverse; and the last with the scene of the two ladies looking at the monks playing music outside, surrounded by moulded lotus lappets each enclosing precious objects and the foliate rim decorated with a flower spray border, the reverse with further flowers and the base with an apocryphal Xuande mark.

The smallest: 22.5 cm. diam. The medium 28.5 cm. diam. The largest: 31 cm. diam.