1st item: Large Japanese Meiji Period Imari porcelain charger with polychrome enamel decorations and gilt highlights. Scalloped rim with central vignettes depicting alternating scenes of birds with flowers and Shachihoko fish with "Cash" coins and flowers, against a blue ground. Center with phoenix and fish vignettes against a dark blue diapered ground. Blue foliate decorations to underside of base. Unmarked. 2 3/8" H x 18 1/4" dia. 2nd-4th items: Three (3) Japanese Meiji Period Imari porcelain fish dishes with polychrome enamel decorations and gilt highlights, including two (2) matching fish-shaped dishes with central vignettes of figures in interiors, surrounded by multicolored chrysanthemum decorations against a red ground; red character marks to underside of bases (3 1/4" H x 13 1/4" W x 8" D); and one (1) rectangular platter with lobed corners depicting a large koi fish in bas-relief against a foliate background and a white ground, red and blue precious object decorations and a blue character mark to underside of base (1 3/4" H x 13" W x 9 1/4" D).

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Pia Stratton, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: 1st item: Scattered firing flaws, largest 1/8", primarily to underside of base, and minor areas of loss to polychrome and gilt. 2nd-4th items: Items with minor scattered firing flaws and losses to polychrome and gilt.