Price On Request ### **Large Imari porcelain dish****Edo Period, late 17th - early 18th century, Japan****Diameter: 55.9 cm, 22 inches**The inside flat base is painted with a lady dressed in a kimono before an open screen and behind a floor screen on stand, all on a terrace with flowering peonies in the background. The broad upward flaring rim is painted with a twice repeated scene of ladies in full kimono costume either side of a cart filled with an abundance of flowers, and beside an open paper screen and floor screen on stand, the latter echoing the central scene. The reverse with a band of flower sprigs, chrysanthemums, plum and camellia. The glazed base with the characteristic spur marks associated with Japanese porcelain manufacture, and a central peach sprig. The design painted in under glaze blue with over glaze red, black, green and gold against a white ground.**Similar Examples**An early 18th century Imari dish with similar rim decoration is in the Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, No: C.1504-1910, with provenance details as follows:DishPorcelain decorated in underglaze blue, over glaze enamels and gildingThe inventory mark of the Royal Saxon Collection of King Augustus the Strong incised on baseJAPANESE (Arita kilns, Imari type)About 1700-1725C.1504-1910Salting Bequest [as at 2005]Please click [**_here_**](http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O493409/dish-unknown/) for more information