This is the small plate which is same as Shibata Collection donated to The Kyushu Ceramic Museum. It has a characteristic of a blackish zaffer, a bold design and a shape rim of outer bottom. Therefore, it will be a work belonging to the last of Blue Kutani style. It keeps a design and balance of a blank well by drawing brushwood fence of the depths diagonally forcibly. But it becomes the mysterious representation that ignored perspective drawing. [Style] Blue Old Kutani style [Technique] Blue and White [Size] D:5.47" [Age] The Edo period (Circa 1660-1680) [Condition] No flaw. Please regard small naked points, blackish brown points, stucked points and pinholes as an identification of made in the old times.
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