This set of five Chinese, porcelain plates painted in enamels on a glazed white background, centers on different images of Hsi Wang-Mu, the Chinese deity of women, shown on each plate with her handmaiden and featuring peaches and their blossoms, one of her attributes. Each flat plate has a slight rise toward the rim and is individually painted. Each differs from the others but all have an expansive white porcelain background with the rims lined with peach petals and blossoms, and small insects. In the center, each plate has standing images of Hsi Wang-Mu and her handmaiden, who carries domestic objects such as  pastry, peaches, or other fruit. A faintly orange outlined deer always stands behind one or the other woman, and low vegetation softens the ground next to the pair of women.  On each plate, Hsi Wang-Mu wears a long orange undergarment partially covered by a turquoise-colored kimono trimmed with black and lined in orange. Two black and light- green sashes fall below the kimono down the front of her orange undergarment.  The handmaiden wears a plain light green (or on two plates, yellow) shirt with a straight, floor-length light green skirt covered to her knees by a straight green and black sashes. She too has long orange and black sashes flowing down the front of her undergarment.  Both women’s faces are the same white color as the background.  porcelain, their black hair pulled back and upward, fasten with a small ornament at the base of the high chignons on the top of their heads. Their eyes and eye brows are drawn with black lines, their noses and mouths outlined in red. The back of each plate is inscribed in blue in Chinese characters, translated means “made in the reign of Ch’eng-hua.”