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A Splendid and Exceedingly Rare Early Ai-Kutani Japanese moulded dish with pie-crust rim and sharply undulating cavetto, superbly painted with flowering branches of Peony issuing from Rockwork
Chokichidani kiln, Arita, Ai-Kutani type, Hizen province, Japan
early Edo period, Joo era (1652-55)
circa 1655
The exceptional finely potted white porcelain body of shallow circular form with a sharply moulded pie-crust rim dressed in iron brown fuchi-beni rim glaze with a superbly formed cavetto of undulating, spiralling form.
The interior is boldly painted with a large central circular medallion depicting flowering branches of peony issuing from rockwork on a steep ground, the reverse encircled with a finely drawn double-lined scrolling hana-karakusa.
A cobalt-blue Kaku-Fuku (Lucky sign) seal character on the reverse within a double square, the edge of the footring burnt red, thickly potted base. This mark was used at the Chokichidani kiln throughout the 1650s.
Measurements:
20.3 cm (7.99 in) in diameter
Condition report:
In excellent original condition. One extremely small flake to the fuchi-beni iron-glazed rim at 6 o'clock.
A splendid 17thC Japanese Ai-Kutani moulded dish, Chokichidani kiln, Arita c1655
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Additional Information
Literature:
An identical dish in the Shibata Collection at the Kyushu Ceramic Museum, illustrated in Catalogue VII, no.111 catalogued as "Rinkasara (flower petal rim plate) Somefuyan peony flower dish 1655~1660s Exhibition number 7-111".
Similar moulded porcelain dishes illustrated in Yamashita, Sakuro "Ai-Kutani to Ai-Kakiemon" (1983), and in Tsuchioka, K. "The Shibata Collection, vol.II, nos. 155-157.
Provenance:
A fine Private Collection, Kyushu, Japan