SUITE OF THREE CUPS Hué blue-white porcelain, one decorated with a scholar and his maid contemplating the landscape from inside his hermitage, the second with cranes in a forest of longevity pines, the third with a figure carrying a young woman on his back along a mountainside path watched over by two warriors behind him. Circled in metal. Two with the mark "Luu Phuong Thien Co" (Good reputation for a thousand years), the last with the apocryphal mark of the Yongzheng emperor. Vietnam, late 19th century. THREE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN PLATES, VIETNAM, LATE 19TH CENTURY. DIAM. 17,2 CM (6 3/4 IN.)