A Chinese blue and white export porcelain square tile, Kangxi period, painted with scattered flowerheads within flower basket and scrolling leafy tendril borders, 18.2cm x 18.2cm, together with another similar tile, painted with lotus and scrolling tendril border, 18.7cm x 18.7cm (minor faults). Provenance: from the private collection of David Armitage, former conservator to the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 1970 and 1999.