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A ko-Kutani vase, Arita ware
A ko-Kutani vase, Arita ware
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### **A ko-Kutani vase, Arita ware**
**Second half of the 17th century, Japan**
**Height: 36.9 cm, 14.53 inches; Diameter: 18 cm, 7.09 inches**
Of elongated pear shape, with tall slightly everted neck ending in a ringed mouth, standing on a circular low foot. The vase is painted all over with a netting design in iron red with gilt details on a white ground; inscribed with an illegible enamelled painted mark to the base.
**Similar Examples**
For a bottle vase of the same form, see Idemitsu Museum of Art, Ko-Kutani, Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2004, no.83.
Japanese Porcelain, by Soame Jenyns, Faber and Faber, London, 1965, no.82a.