A 17th Century Japanese Porcelain Dish

A 17th Century Japanese Blue and White Porcelain Dish, Arita Kilns c.1660 – 1680. This type of Japanese porcelain is referred to as Ko-Imari (old imari).This thickly potted square porcelain dish has canted corners and incised decoration beneath the grey-blue ground. The asymmetrical design to the well of the dish is painted in darker tones of cobalt blue with a group of molluscs among seaweed. The back is painted with a hut on the foreshore beneath a weeping willow tree, the other corners show hills and a flock of birds flying in formation. The glaze is thick and covered in a fine even crazing. The shallow base has a single stilt-mark (where the piece was supported in the kiln).

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