They are hand painted, and an
iron red background is typical of this type of ware.
It was a good size punch bowl, decorated in a typical
iron red and blue palette.
Your more modern bowl, still in the famous colours of
iron red and cobalt blue with distinctive gilding, is worth between pounds 200 and pounds 250.
Imari porcelain predominantly employs a palette of underglaze blue with on-glaze
iron red and gold.
The
iron red genista or broom on the right means a union which would refer to the happy couple, while the panel showing a stag hunt, a pursuit reserved for royal rank is linked to Venus and symbolic of love and fertility.