Height 7.3cm, Bowl diameter 37.0cm, Base diameter 19.5cm, MOA Art Museum
　This is a large circular dish with rounded curved sides, a simple form most often seen in Ko-Kutani style dishes. A peony with three flowers is shown with a taiko-ishi stone in the center, and the large peony flowers are painted in dark purple and green overglaze enamels, a typical design of the Ko-Kutani style. The peony design on this plate is the most ancient of the five existing Kutani plates. The peony design is framed in a regular octagonal shape and clearly delineated with vermilion lines on a white background, creating a neat and dignified composition. The border is painted in yellow, green, purple, and navy blue, and the inside is decorated with alternating cloisonne patterns and a ground pattern with a four-directional tasuki (a four-dashidashi) in black line drawing. Red is used only for the lines of the compartments, but not for the screen itself, which is very vivid to the eye. The reverse side is covered with chrysanthemum arabesques with flowers on three sides, and the brushwork is extremely unrestrained. The inscription “FUKU” is written in a double square in the base, and dark blue is also applied on it. The porcelain is of a slightly higher quality than earlier vessels, such as Figure 1.
