A PAIR OF CHINESE BIRD AND FLOWER PAINTINGS. Qing Dynasty. One depicting a pair of cockerels and a magpie, the other a pair of peacocks and a paradise flycatcher, both inscribed and sealed to the top left corner, framed and glazed, by Liao Fuzhi, 47 x 32cm. (2) 清   廖福之繪畫兩幅， 「你徐崇嗣先生筆意，錫培廖福之」、「福之仿古」、「錫培」、「廖福之」款 Provenance: From the collection of Brigadier Harry Hamilton Dempsey CBE (1895-1973) and Mrs Stella Muriel Dempsey (1899-1982), acquired in Hong Kong in the 1930s, thence by descent to the present owners.