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Nabeshima Sometsuke Kikumon Shaku Sara (鍋島染付菊文尺皿)

This is a Nabeshima ware dish which Kawasoe-san has created.
The plate has designed for -"Nabeshima-style sometsuke""-.
It is the original chrysanthemum design with blue light and shade.

30 centimeters in diameter.
Comes with a plate stand like the photo above.
The dish is also good for decoration in the room.

Sometsuke (染付)
- A pottery with blue pictures and patterns on a white background-

It refers to the skill of blue-painting on a unglazed ceramic.
Patterns are painted with a "gosu" containing cobalt oxide that turns blue color.
And it's baked after being glazed on top of it.

The production of Sometsuke has been started since Edo period.
It was Nabeshima-Hanyo which was founded as a directly managed business for Saga-Nabeshima domain.
A wide variety of ceramics are made such as ironabehsima, sometsuke and seiji as a gift to the lord.
It's still passed down as a hidden treasure even today.

Kawasoe-san also preserves the technique and works hard to make ceramics that's suitable for today's life.