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A pair of light circular plates of lacquered wood (urushi), modeled with swallow, flaring and rounded sides and a flat rim with engrossed edge
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Decorated in pictorial style with gold lacquer (maki-e). The centre decorated in flat and low relief (tahamaki-e) with imaginary landscape scenes with trees, rockwork and water
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The flat rim is decorated with a typical border of endless pearl (shippôtsungi) in gold lacquer
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Standing on a short foot-ring
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These plates were made to be exported to Europe at the end of the 17th and early 18th Century
Other similar plates are in:
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The Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London
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The Collection of the Groningen Museum (inv.no. 1978.447)
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Peabody Essex Museum in Salem
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Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Literature:
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Jorge Welsh/L.Vinais After the Barbarians. Namban Works of Art for the Japanese, Portuguese and Dutch Market. Lisbon, 2008. p.334. no. 47
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O.Impey / C.Jörg. Japanese Export Lacquer. 1580-1850. p.117. no.420.