English and European Ceramics and Glass - 13 Sep 2016
A pair of Chelsea dessert plates c.1752-58
A pair of Chelsea dessert plates c.1752-58, richly decorated in the Imari palette with the Brocade pattern, with sprays of flowering chrysanthemum to the well, the cavetto and rim with a wide panelled border of prunus sprays and hatched designs beneath floating chrysanthemum mon, the underside of the rims with further flower sprays, some faults, 24.2cm. (2)
This pattern is copied directly from a Japanese original.