A GROUP OF CHINESE IMARI PLATESComprising: three large plates, 38cm diameter; four small plates, 22.5cm diameter; and another, 31.5cm diameterAll with peony and bamboo within a border of flowers in underglaze blue (8)Provenance: Possibly collected by Arthur Barnardiston (d. 1737) and kept at Brightwell Hall Removed to Weston Hall in 1744Thence by descent at Weston Hall. Literature: Sir George Sitwell, A brief history of Weston Hall, Northamptonshire, and of the families that possessed it, London, privately printed 1927, p. 43.