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Shallow bowl with a pine tree, bamboo and plum blossom
design in overglaze enamels in typical Ko-kutani Aote
style. Background of fine Japanese plum blossoms covered over with a thick
yellow glaze. Foregound shows a pine branch in purple glaze, with needles
and bamboo fronds in thick green glaze. Reverse is unpatterned, but parts
of the back and inside of the base are also green glazed. Semi porcelain
clay with obvious crazing. The small base and lack of kuchibeni (red
rim), sometsuke (cobalt underglaze), or me'ato (kiln
stand marks) indicate that this work was probably bisque-fired in the Kutani
village kiln and then painted, and the form is similar to other pieces excavated
from the Kutani village kiln site. The overall style points toward the earliest
period of Ko-kutani and so it is considered to be a most significant piece. |
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