Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

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The Ingrams in Japan

A story about Sir Herbert and Lady Ingram’s honeymoon in Japan, where they collected hundreds of objects now in the Ashmolean’s collection.

Cake dish with opposing crane and turtle, Japan, 1895-1899, (Museum no: EA1956.2016.a)

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Blue Bizen ware figure of a phoenix

Glossary (2)

phoenix, stoneware

  • phoenix

    Mythical bird known as hōō in Japan. The Islamic tradition appropriated the far-eastern iconography of the phoenix and used it to represent another mythical bird, the simurgh.

  • stoneware

    Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1200-1300⁰c and is often buff or grey in colour.

Location

    • Second floor | Room 36 | Japan

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