A Japanese Kakiemon dish, circa 1700

of lobed form with a shaped rim edged in brown, brightly painted with a blue crane in flight above an iron-red crane beside flowering shrubs border, the everted rim painted with a flowers and foliage

In good condition, there is some light scratching to the surface of the dish.
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A similar example is illustrated by S.Hayashiya, Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol.8, Edo III, no.168; and another in Old Imari Ware, Toguri Museum of Art, 1991, p.96.no.197. For the Meissen version of this pattern see M.Shono, Japanisches Aritaporzellan im sogenannten `Kakiemonstil', 1973, figs.61-63.