18TH CENTURY
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An Imari dish
18th Century
Decorated in coloured enamels, iron-red and gilt on underglaze blue, the central medallion with four small roundels, each enclosing a butterfly among meandering lotus stems, surrounded on the well and rim with alternate ruyi and petal-shaped panels of single flower-sprays, reserved on a ground of scrolling foliage and pomegranate
27.7 cm. diam.
18th Century
Decorated in coloured enamels, iron-red and gilt on underglaze blue, the central medallion with four small roundels, each enclosing a butterfly among meandering lotus stems, surrounded on the well and rim with alternate ruyi and petal-shaped panels of single flower-sprays, reserved on a ground of scrolling foliage and pomegranate
27.7 cm. diam.