A PAIR OF JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE ARITA DISHES

A PAIR OF JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE ARITA DISHES

EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY

With scalloped edges, both decorated to the well with a deer prancing amongst vegetation and with maple leaves above, some details stencilled and other stamped, the rims with wavy patterns, the undersides with karakusa scrolls, both 19cm. (2)

Provenance: from an English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s.