An Early Japanese Lozenge Shaped Dish, Arita Kilns c.1620-1640. This small Japanese porcelain serving dish is potted in a similar way to Japanese pottery of the period. It is a very early piece and might well date to before 1630. The moulded form is freely decorated in grey blue tones of cobalt oxide with panels of trailing vine around a central design of two ginkgo leaves on a blue ground. The glazing is uneven, with areas of pooling as well as a bare patch near the foot. This dish is shown with a related kiln waster (Robert McPherson Antiques – Not For Sale – Reference Collection). For more information about early period of Japanese porcelain production see The Early Kilns of Japan, Arita in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century (Oliver Impey, Clarendon University Press Oxford 1996. ISBN 0-19-826370-8).

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