Two Bow octagonal plates

£200 - £300 £180

Two Bow octagonal plates, c.1752-55, one painted in Kakiemon enamels with exotic birds and a dragon around flowering branches and a pine tree, the rim with a gilt spearhead border, the other painted in famille rose enamels with a flying insect above simple flowering plants, the former with a long rim crack, 23.6cm max. (2)

Provenance: the David Stopher Collection.