comprising: two intricately designed panels, featuring numerous figures including emperor, warriors on horseback, and scholars, archways and pine trees, latch mechanism on back, each 24-3/4 x 15-5/8 x 2-1/2 in.; two panels with intricate floral decoration surrounding scenes of figures, 26-1/4 x 15-1/2 x 1 in.

Note: William Joseph Roache and his family moved from Australia to Hong Kong in the early 1960s. He was employed as an Agronomist, and his job took him out into the Chinese countryside. In these travels, he purchased Chinese art, typically porcelains, from locals and shops. Mr. Roache then moved to Singapore in the late 1960s and continued his passion for collecting. After moving to the United States, he and his family retired to a horse farm in Rutherfordton, North Carolina where he lived surrounded by his beloved objects.

Provenance: Collection of William Joseph Roache, Rutherfordton, North Carolina; by descent in family

loss to gilt and pigment; one of the busy examples with crack to top arch and bottom next to horse rider, other panel with break and repair to pole held by figure in bottom right corner; floral examples with warping between panels, one with cracks to top and bottom panels