A story about Sir Herbert and Lady Ingram’s honeymoon in Japan, where they collected hundreds of objects now in the Ashmolean’s collection.
phoenix, stoneware
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.
Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1200-1300⁰c and is often buff or grey in colour.
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