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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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Vase depicting a ship in a stormy sea

  • Literature notes

    Porcelain vase with enamelled depiction of a ship in difficulties in a violent thunderstorm. Signed on base in iron red: Dai Nihon Tōkyō Namikawa sei; Hōen ga (Great Japan Tōkyō, made by Namikawa; painted by Hōen).

    Namikawa Sōsuke had moved the Shippō Kaisha factory from Nagoya to Tōkyō when he took it over in 1880, continuing to make cloisonné enamel, but he also seems to have had other factories, or at least acted as agent for other factories making cloisonné on a porcelain body and porcelain itself. Very few examples of porcelain signed by this factory (or these factories) have been identified. The painter is identified as Hōen (not Nishiyama Hōen), but is otherwise unknown.
  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaJapanHonshūKantōTōkyō prefecture Tōkyō (place of creation)
    Date
    early 1880s
    Artist/maker
    Namikawa Sōsuke (1847 - 1910) (potter)
    Hōen (active c. 1880s) (artist)
    Material and technique
    porcelain, thrown, with polychrome overglaze enamels
    Dimensions
    37.3 cm (height)
    21 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    Technique index
    coveredcoated glazed,
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1999.
    Accession no.
    EA1999.42
  • Further reading

    Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 17 on p. 38, illus. pp. 38-39

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porcelain

  • porcelain

    Ceramic material composed of kaolin, quartz, and feldspar which is fired to a temperature of c.1350-1400⁰c. The resulting ceramic is vitreous, translucent, and white in colour.

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

    Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period

    Porcelain vase with enamelled depiction of a ship in difficulties in a violent thunderstorm. Signed on base in iron red: Dai Nihon Tōkyō Namikawa sei; Hōen ga (Great Japan Tōkyō, made by Namikawa; painted by Hōen).

    Namikawa Sōsuke had moved the Shippō Kaisha factory from Nagoya to Tōkyō when he took it over in 1880, continuing to make cloisonné enamel, but he also seems to have had other factories, or at least acted as agent for other factories making cloisonné on a porcelain body and porcelain itself. Very few examples of porcelain signed by this factory (or these factories) have been identified. The painter is identified as Hōen (not Nishiyama Hōen), but is otherwise unknown.
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