CHINA for VIETNAM, 19th century Two small flat-bottomed plates in "Hué blue" porcelain, one decorated with a pavilion by the water near a pine tree with a BICH NGOC (sapphire) mark in sigil script, and the second decorated with a lively landscape of pavilions among trees by the water and figures on mountain life with a NGOAN NGOC mark. Diameters 16.2 and 17 cm. Crack to the second Provenance: inherited from a senior officer stationed in Indochina in the early 1950s Expert: Madame Anne Papillon d'Alton