Strutting Pheasants on the Riverside Plate with Dark Border Plate

Traditional Japanese art at its best! At its most affordable too! ONLY 6.99 buys this Strutting Pheasants on the Riverside Plate. Ornate design, softly muted colors and a beautiful pheasant all combine to make this Strutting Pheasants on the Riverside Plate an eyecatching accent for home or office. Also makes a great gift for the person who loves Oriental art!

Archeological evidence suggests that large pheasants lived in southern France in the Miocene period, some 13 million years ago. The Greeks knew the bird in the 10th Century B.C. and we have adopted their name for the species, Phasianus ornis (phasian bird), derived from the Phasis River (now Rion) near the Caucasus Mountains. The Chinese knew the pheasant some 3,000 years ago, but the Romans are considered responsible for the spread of pheasants in western Europe. When Julius Caesar invaded England in the first century B.C., the pheasant followed.