Nice Pair of Early 20th Century Japanese Kutani Plates
Item # 3914
These highly decorated plates depict a family standing by a river and a village, with raised gilt and painted designs.
Kutani ware (Kutani-yaki) is a style of Japanese porcelain traditionally supposed to be from Kutani, now a part of Kaga, Ishikawa, in the former Kaga Province. It is divided into two phases: Ko-Kutani (old Kutani), from the 17th and early 18th centuries, and Saiko-Kutani from the revived production in the 19th century.
Kutani ware, especially in the Ko-Kutani period, is marked by vivid dark colors that epitomize lavish aesthetics. It is theorized that the long, harsh and grey winters of the Hokuriku region led to a desire among people living there for ceramic ware to show strong and bold colors. The classical five colors style is known as gosai-de which includes green, blue, yellow, purple, and red. The designs are bold and normally depict landscapes, the beauty of nature, and people, and cover most of the surface of each piece
Details:
Height – 2.5 inches / 6cm
Diameter – 14.5 inches / 37cm
