A PAIR OF JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE ARITA DISHES EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY With scalloped edges, both decorated to the well with a deer prancing amongst vegetation and with maple leaves above, some details stencilled and other stamped, the rims with wavy patterns, the undersides with karakusa scrolls, both 19cm. (2) Provenance: from an English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s.