Fine Japanese Porcelain Hand Painted Cabinet Plate - the Scholars & Their Scrolls

Description

A finely hand painted display or cabinet plate with lustrous, rich enamels in brilliant colors accented with gold highlights. The … more A finely hand painted display or cabinet plate with lustrous, rich enamels in brilliant colors accented with gold highlights. The main central scene depicts a group of scholars pondering their reading scrolls on an ornate table. The outer portion has fine paintings of further scholars' objects, auspicious objects and precious objects in a lovely array of colours that include jade green, blue, brick red, yellow and brown. Japanese works are of a high quality.
Hallmarked on the underside with a red hand drawn Japanese chop/mark in overglaze red.
Last half 20th century.
Excellent condition.
Listed by East2West Furniture Florida
10" diameter x 1" tall.
1.5 pounds. less