A Japanese Imari composite part-service, Edo period, circa 1700

painted with a vase issuing flowers on terracing, below a border of scale-pattern roundels and pendant flowers, the plates similar with borders of flowers, comprising a pair of octagonal dishes, three similar smaller, and seven plates,

Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian, Inventory, 1901, p.49, in Library Lobby & Passage; ‘2 Japanese octagonal plates, in red blue & gold. 8 1/2'' '

The two largest octagonal plates, one with slight ware to gilding and to well from stacking, the other with a section broken from rim and re-stuck, between 3 o'clock and 7 o'clock and there is a crack from rim at 2 o'clock. The three slightly smaller, one with slight rubbing to gilding, the other two both wear to gilding and over-glaze enamels, one with an extending crack to rim from 2 o'clock. The plates, three plates in good condition but with rubbing to gilding, one plate with shallow rim chip just after 6 o'clock and rubbing to gilding, one plate with faint crack at 7 o'clock with rubbing to gilding, and two plates are cracked and riveted, one of which has two sections of the rim broken out and riveted and a further faint crack. General Rubbing to gilding throughout.
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