† †A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE CHARGER EDO PERIOD, C.1670-80 Elegantly painted to the well with flowering chrysanthemum and peony by a triangular fence, the rim with a wide band of five lotus flowers and leafy scrolling tendrils, the reverse left undecorated and with several spur marks, 53.5cm. Provenance: purchased in Paris, by repute. Cf. J Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, vol. II, p.631, no.1471-1472, for a pair of related dishes (access. no. RCIN58949). Also, see C J A Jörg, Fine & Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, p.130, no.138, for a similarly decorated dish in the Groninger Museum, Groningen.