A rare Bow octagonal plate

 

After an Arita original painted with four panels of red and white whorl designs linked by gold flowerhead mons, alternating with two panels of enamelled red, blue and green poppies and two of Oriental precious objects. The border with a brown line rim

 

Circa 1755

 

Diameter 19.5 cm

 

For very similar dish see Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, Bow Porcelain, the Freeman Collection (1982), fig. 57