Antique blue and white porcelain Arita sometsuke plate, with handpainted cobalt underglaze

Circa mid-to-late 19th century

This charger plate is decorated with handpainted concentric circles of Buddhist text, flowers, ideal memebers of Japanese society, with hanging boughs decorating the rim

Outer rim decorated with flowers

Approx 11.5" diam

Wear to glaze. Glaze imperfections during firing (See pics)