A Japanese Imari “La Dame au Parasol” plate. Edo Period

The circular dish with wide rim decorated in iron-red, black, green and aubergine enamels and gilt on underglaze blue with the well-known scene after Cornelis Pronk showing a Japanese lady in Kimono attended by her maidservant holding a paper parasol, the revers decorated with seven iron-red insects.

A massive Chinese Imari ovoid jar and cover decorated with pheasants. Early 18th century

Of baluster form, enameled in the imari palette and gilt around the exterior with a continuous scene of a pair of pheasants perched on elaborate pierced rock work issuing branches heavy with flowering peony, pomegranate blossom, chrysanthemum, and peach blossoms between a lappet border around the base and the shoulder with a deep band of pattern-filled, […]