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Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period

A catalogue of the Ashmolean’s Japanese decorative arts from the Meiji period (1868-1912), by Oliver Impey and Joyce Seaman (published Oxford, 2005).

Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912 by Oliver Impey and Joyce Seaman

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Baluster vase with a bear on a rock

  • Literature notes

    Baluster shaped bronze vase inlaid in soft metals with bear on rock overlooking a stream, in low relief & and flat inlay (hira-zōgan). Engraved signature: Hayashibe Katsunao with inlaid gold seal: Nao.

    No ther works by this artist seem to be recorded. This vase was exhibited at the Paris Exposition Internationale in 1900, and illustrated in the catalogue (unnumbered and unpaginated). Similar such vases, by a number of different artists, were exhibited at the same Exposition.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia Japan (place of creation)
    EuropeFrance Paris Department Paris (Paris Exposition Internationale) (former location)
    Date
    1900
    Artist/maker
    Hayashibe Katsunao (active c. 1900)
    Material and technique
    bronze, inlaid with soft metal in low relief, and with hira-zōgan (flat inlay) in soft metals
    Dimensions
    17.5 cm (height)
    8.5 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1994.
    Accession no.
    EA1994.65
  • Further reading

    Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 31 on p. 66, p. 8, illus. pp. 66-67

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    • Second floor | Room 36 | Japan

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Publications online

  • Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912 by Oliver Impey and Joyce Seaman

    Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period

    Baluster shaped bronze vase inlaid in soft metals with bear on rock overlooking a stream, in low relief & and flat inlay (hira-zōgan). Engraved signature: Hayashibe Katsunao with inlaid gold seal: Nao.

    No ther works by this artist seem to be recorded. This vase was exhibited at the Paris Exposition Internationale in 1900, and illustrated in the catalogue (unnumbered and unpaginated). Similar such vases, by a number of different artists, were exhibited at the same Exposition.
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