How to identify Kutani ware hand-painted vessels
2018.05.03
The goodness of Kutani ware's hand-painted vessels is the warmth that the craftsmen carefully draw by hand. Hand-painted work at the Kutani Bitoen workshop
Hand-painted work at the Kutani Bitoen workshop
However, around this time, transfer technology (a method of printing on a vessel so that the same picture is copied) has developed, and it is difficult to distinguish between hand-painted and transferred. Therefore, I will introduce how to distinguish a simple hand-painted vessel.

You might think that's the case, but the best way to distinguish hand-painted items is to line up the vessels with the same picture. Hand-painted lines such as line length and thickness should be slightly different. On the other hand, the transfer and print vessels have exactly the same picture.

Please try it next time.
A bowl made of hand-made tools