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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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Satsuma cup with chrysanthemums and key pattern border

  • Literature notes

    Straight sided earthenware cup with a chrysanthemum spray in soft enamels beneath a key-fret border, all over a finely crackled ivory glaze. Signed in gold on side: Satsuma Tōkōzan sei, with a square red seal.

    In spite of arguments to the contrary (some of them very heated) it seems clear that the enameled Satsuma wares, sometimes called ‘brocaded wares’ were first made at Kagoshima, in the Satsuma domain, in the middle of the nineteenth century and were imitated in other areas of Japan (Tōkyō, Kyōto, Ōsaka, Yokohama etc.) later.
  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaJapanKyūshūKagoshima prefecture Kagoshima (Tōkōzan Kiln) (place of creation)
    Europe (probable original location)
    Date
    c. 1900
    Artist/maker
    Tōkōzan (active 1880 - 1920) (potter)
    Tōkōzan Workshop (active 1880 - late 1920s) (potter)
    Material and technique
    earthenware, with polychrome overglaze enamels, including gold
    Dimensions
    7.3 cm (height)
    6.9 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    Technique index
    coveredcoated glazed,
    Object type index
    containervessel cup
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.681
  • Further reading

    Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 22 on p. 48, illus. pp. 48-49

Glossary

earthenware

  • earthenware

    Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1000-1200⁰c. The resulting ceramic is non-vitreous and varies in colour from dark red to yellow.

Location

    • 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

    Straight sided earthenware cup with a chrysanthemum spray in soft enamels beneath a key-fret border, all over a finely crackled ivory glaze. Signed in gold on side: Satsuma Tōkōzan sei, with a square red seal.

    In spite of arguments to the contrary (some of them very heated) it seems clear that the enameled Satsuma wares, sometimes called ‘brocaded wares’ were first made at Kagoshima, in the Satsuma domain, in the middle of the nineteenth century and were imitated in other areas of Japan (Tōkyō, Kyōto, Ōsaka, Yokohama etc.) later.
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