For sale is a nice old Japanese Kutani pottery plate with traditional iron red decoration.  The piece is about 8 1/2 inches in diameter and 1 1/4 inches tall at the rim.  The plate has a crackled cream-colored glaze, with hand painted overglaze decoration of birds and men, primarily in iron red, gold and black.  The back is undecorated. The foot is glazed over, and the rim is unglazed.  It has hand painted red “KU TANI” mark as shown.

Condition on the plate is fairly good.  There is some wear to the decoration, but no chips or cracks.  There is some red staining around the foot rim.  A nice old Japanese porcelain plate.