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Large Dish with Persimmon Branch

色絵柿の枝図平鉢

mid- to late 1600s
(1615-1868)
Porcelain with underglaze black and overglaze enamel (Hizen ware, Ko-Kutani style)
Diameter: 33.4 cm (13 1/8 in.); height: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.245
Location: 235A Japanese
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Persimmons ripen in autumn and are often associated with that time of year.

Description

This large plate is considered to have been produced in Kyushu, and is in a palette of Ko-Kutani style works called aode (literally, bluish-green hand) for the deep blue, green, purple, and yellow overglaze enamels that completely cover their surfaces. Ko-Kutani means “old Kutani,” and can refer to two kinds of porcelains. One kind is said to have been produced in the village of Kutani in present-day Ishikawa prefecture in the mid-1600s through the early 1700s. The other kind, decorated with similar glazes and designs, was produced in the former Arita domain of present-day Saga prefecture in Kyushu.
Large Dish with Persimmon Branch

Large Dish with Persimmon Branch

mid- to late 1600s

Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)

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