Meiji period (1868-1912), porcelain hand painted in iron red, black, and gold with mirror images of a samurai with attendant under pine tree and by stone temple lanterns, elaborate detailing to figures and ornate designs around the scene on the interior of the charger, fantastic dragons amid swirling clouds on reverse, signed to the underside of each.

Diameter 14 3/8 in.

The Estate of the late Rushton W. Hays, St. Augustine, FL

A star shaped hairline crack to underside of one.

$400 - 800