Artworks

Dish with phoenix design (Ko Kutani)

Artwork · Anonymous · 17th century · dish · Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art

A distinctive Kutani ware plate: a fantastic bird in bold, mannered design, its feathers ranging from blue to yellow, green and rust, against a crude grey-white ground — taut pose, one claw clenched, beak open as if to caw raucously. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 295–296, fig. 338. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.