The dishes are crisply moulded with thirty two lobes, the rims slightly bevelled, and the fine white bodies are decorated in the Kakiemon palette.
In the centre a bird perches on an abstract foliate scroll and in the cavetto a beribboned spray of miniature blooming chrysanthemum is balanced on the opposite side by a single karashishi; the design completed by a small flower spray and a butterfly.
In Europe the design is known as ‘the lion, sprig and butterfly pattern’, 25.8cm in diameter.
