A set of twelve Japanese enameled porcelain orange ground...

A set of twelve Japanese enameled porcelain orange ground "Boys" dishes

Each dish decorated with a wide border of eight Chinese boys playing amongst pines, centered by three prunus branches, the underside with apocryphal six-character Qianlong mark.

Approx. D: 9 1/2 in.; 24.5cm

PROVENANCE:

Henry Loomis (1839-1920), great grandfather of the present owner, acquired in Japan
thence by descent to the present owner
NOTE: Henry Loomis was a soldier in the Civil War who went to Japan in 1871 as a missionary, he is buried in Yokohama