Four blue and white dishes with qilin, 18th century, Japan, With a barbed rim and an unusual design of a large qilin in a landscape with a large-leaved tree, reminiscent of the more frequently encountered Chinese transitional period chargers with a similar style qilin pattern. Marked with an apocryphal Chinese "Dai Min Seika nen sei" Chenghua mark (Ming dynasty, 1465-1487). D 21.5 cm,