A 17th Century Japanese Moulded Blue and White Arita Dish.

A 17th Century Japanese Moulded Blue and White Arita Dish. This unusual dish dates to the around the 1660s, and is from a group referred to as Ko-Kutani, even though this dish was made at the Arita kilns. The dish is Arita porcelain has moulded embossed chrysanthemum flower heads to the curved edge, which have been highlighted by a wash of cobalt blue leaving a thicker and therefore darker line of blue around the edges of the moulded flowers. The central scene to the well of the dish has been confidently painted at speed with jagged outlines to the rock on the left. Beneath the rock is a building on stilts next to the water, three fishing nets are hanging up at the edge of the promontory. In the foreground are diminutive two boats, to the right are two geese in flight. The back has two freely drawn fruiting vines, there is a seal mark to the center of the base. SOLD See Below For More Photographs and Information