A small circular Arita-ware dish, Ko-Kutani type

A small circular Arita-ware dish, Ko-Kutani type

1650 – 1660
Fuku Mark under a Green Wash

14.5 cm across
Fuku Mark under a Green Wash

 

Divided, off centre with two designs. One of a flowering branch, with yellow and green leaves, the other with a scrolling design in yellow enamel outlined in black. The edge of the dish is of a wavy form and with applied brown glaze. Decorated to the reverse with pine needles.

A Similar piece is illustrated in Ko-Kutani, from the collection of the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, pl.39, pp70.

Condition – Three small chips to rim. No restoration.

Provenance – Given to Peggy & David Rockefeller as a gift from Miss Lucy Truman Aldrich, in the early 1950s.

 

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