The Chinese plate has later Dutch decoration, with delicate blue, green and yellow enamels and gilt with two birds in a garden with prunus blossom and pine.
8¼ in. (21 cm.) diam.

Collection of the late Soame Jenyns (1904-1976), then by descent within the family.

Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, (London, 1965), plate no. 77B

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For a very similar but larger dish, see Helen Espir, `European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain 1700 - 1830', London, 2005, pp. 82 & 83, fig. 14.