Antique Japanese Kutani Aka-e Plate Rakan Buddhist Figures Landscape Gold Meiji Chinese late 19th–early 20th century

late 19th–early 20th century

and warm gold-amber with rich green foliage dominate the composition

It is glazed in a beautiful shiwan green-blue glaze that has an emerald color quality to it

Also where the sword gripping hand There are tagane ato around the nakago indicating it was most certainly affixed to a sword

Measures: 26"' wide by 62"' tall

Antique Japanese Kutani Aka-e Plate Rakan Buddhist Figures Landscape Gold Meiji Chinese late 19th–early 20th centuryJapanese Kutani Aka e Plate Rakan Buddhist Figures Landscape Gold Meiji Japan, Meiji period, c. 18801910 Approx. 8 in. dia (20 cm); Weight: A fine Kutani () porcelain plate of above average decorative ambition, painted in the aka e () overglaze enamel tradition with a complex multi cartouche composition centered on a large rakan zu () a gathering of Buddhist arhats (, rakan), the enlightened disciples of the Buddha. Fifteen or more figures are