Height 6.9cm, mouth diameter 20.3cm, base diameter 11.2cm
Hakone Art Museum
　The seven-sun and five-sun plates of Nabeshima in overglaze enamels are characterized by their extremely large number of botanical designs, all of which are elegantly patterned. This is another fine seven-sun dish, this time featuring a rhododendron flower. The use of unusually dark dye on the leaves of the rhododendron may have been intended to show the thickness of the leaves. It is a characteristic of color porcelain to use abstract colors, but it is interesting that the artist tried to express the texture of the subject within these restrictions. On the outside, arabesques centering on peony flowers, which are relatively rare for a 7″ dish, are arranged on three sides, and the base is a kushime-taidai (comb-shaped base).
