A Small 17th Century Ko-Kutani Porcelain Dish with a Night Scene.

A Small 17th Century Ko-Kutani Type Porcelain Dish with a Night Scene c.1650-1670. This small, rather refined dish with a narrow rim in deep cobalt blue, is of a type that is often referred to a K0-Kutani type, however it was made at Arita. The well of this dish is impressed about one millimetre and then the pale nights sky has been added with a broad brush while it was turned on the wheel. A dark cobalt was used for the skeletal willow tree to the left, the two rustic devellings and the foreground. Overglaze dull red has been used in combination with a very small amount of gilding to depict trees in the foreground, there are silver highlights to the two buildings, now tarnished. The back has a large Homare mark. This mark is associated with the period of 1650 to 1660, perhaps as late as 1670. It is found on Arita porcelain, often but not exclusively in the Ko-Kutani style.

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