AN IMARI DISH decorated in various coloured enamels and gilt on underglaze-blue, depicting two book-shaped panels, one with two bijin standing in front of a pavilion, the other panel with pavilions in a mountainous riverscape, all reserved on a ground of lotus-heads growing from scrolling feathery stems, the reverse with a blossoming peony, chrysanthemum and prunus branch (small glaze imperfections), 19th Century

AN IMARI DISH decorated in various coloured enamels and gilt on underglaze-blue, depicting two book-shaped panels, one with two bijin standing in front of a pavilion, the other panel with pavilions in a mountainous riverscape, all reserved on a ground of lotus-heads growing from scrolling feathery stems, the reverse with a blossoming peony, chrysanthemum and prunus branch (small glaze imperfections), 19th Century
34cm. diam.