A set of three, four and five Imari and iron-red plates

A set of three, four and five Imari and iron-red plates
Late 17th-18th Century
A set of three Imari plates painted to the centre with a lotus flower surrounded by flowering branches, the rim decorated with three flower-sprays, 23 cm. diam.; a set of four iron-red plates decorated to the central roundel with two ladies in a fenced garden, the well and shaped rim moulded with tulip-shaped panels enclosing flowers or birds, 21.5 cm. diam.; and a set of five Imari plates painted with a servant standing behind a dignitary, 21.5 cm. diam. (12)