Height 5.8 cm, mouth diameter 33.7 cm, bottom diameter 21.6 cm
Among the Ko-Kutani style works, this nine-cornered plate is particularly popular among the curious. The workmanship is quite exquisite, so it is assumed to have been made in the late to early Kutani period.
This large nine-sided dish has a white jyukuri design with a red myoga border. Among several existing examples, this dish is highly regarded as a masterpiece because of the tightness of its shape and the vividness of the overglaze enamels on the surface. The right side of the circular window with a view shows three Chinese children playing with a small bird on a string on a cliff, and the left side shows a pine tree and flowers on a cliff. On the reverse side, a peony arabesque with nine flowers is decorated in underglaze blue, with a comb pattern on the outer side of the base and a seal script inscription in the center of the base in the double horns.
