A Small 17th Century Ko-Kutani Dish
c.1640 - 1650
A Ko-Kutani Dish Peach Shaped Dish c.1640 – 1650. This Ko-Kutani Dish was made at the Kutani Kilns, Enuma County, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The underglaze cobalt blue and overglazed enamels depicts a parrot perched on a flowering and fruiting pomegranate tree. This the right side is intersected by a textile design creating an asymmetrical that appealed to Japanese taste. The back is painted with a scrolling lotus design in the Chinese taste. This Ko-Kutani dish comes with an inscribed Japanese box.
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- Condition
- Three small Kintsugi repairs, a minute rim fritt. Glaze faults.
- Size
- Width 15.5 cm (6 inches)
- Provenance
- From a Japanese collection, with an inscribed box.
- Stock number
- 26181
- References
- For a dish of this design but of a different shape dated to 1640-1650 see : Complete Catalogue of Shibata Collection (Contributors Saga Kenritsu Kyūshū Tōji Bunkakan. Published by the Kyushu Ceramic Museum, 1990) page 34, item 0215. For a similar dish of a different design see : Complete Catalogue of Shibata Collection (Contributors Saga Kenritsu Kyūshū Tōji Bunkakan. Published by the Kyushu Ceramic Museum, 1990) page 40, item 0262.
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