Each dish with a pastoral scene from a European original, the flat rims with a pie-crust moulding, painted with a wave-pattern, the underside with floral sprigs. 20cm (7 7/8in) diam. (2).

Note: According to D.S. Howard's Choice of The Private Trader, p. 44, this design is thought to date from circa 1700-1720 and to have been copied from a drawing by Frederick van Frytom (1652-1702). Similar examples were also manufactured in Japan, presumably in Arita, and these are illustrated in Soame Jenyns's Japanese Porcelain, pl. 19A, where Jenyns shows the Kangxi and Arita types side-by-side. For some time, this design was known as 'Deshima Island', but the landscape and church spire are now thought to imply that the location is intended to be somewhere in the Netherlands. Howard also concludes against the Deshima Island theory, stating that the location is 'considered to be near Scheveningen in Holland'.

Bonhams. AUCTION 23541: ASIAN ART, 10:30 BST - LONDON, KNIGHTSBRIDGE