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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 procession of insects

  • Literature notes

    Small baluster-shaped vase with wide neck and slightly everted rim. Decorated under a pale uneven peach-bloom glaze with a procession of three insects holding various flowers. Seal-mark in underglaze blue on the base: Makuzu Kōzan sei.

    Kōzan made several shapes and sizes of vases with a peach-bloom glaze decorated with underglaze copper-red drawings of processions of insects carrying flowers as if they were banners. These, caricatures of Edo period daimyō processions, derive from paintings by artists such as Nishiyama Hōen (1804-1867), themselves possibly inspired by the twelfth century Chōjō giga handscrolls.

    Bought in Japan by Sir Herbert and Lady Ingram in 1908.
  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaJapanHonshūKantōKanagawa prefectureYokohamaOta Makuzu kiln-site (place of creation)
    Date
    c. 1895
    Artist/maker
    Makuzu kiln (1871 - 1959) (potter)
    Material and technique
    porcelain, thrown, with painting in copper-red under a 'peach-bloom' glaze
    Dimensions
    12.4 cm (height)
    6.3 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.667
  • Further reading

    Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 6 on p. 20, p. 8, illus. pp. 20-21

Glossary (2)

glaze, porcelain

  • glaze

    Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.

  • 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.

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

    Small baluster-shaped vase with wide neck and slightly everted rim. Decorated under a pale uneven peach-bloom glaze with a procession of three insects holding various flowers. Seal-mark in underglaze blue on the base: Makuzu Kōzan sei.

    Kōzan made several shapes and sizes of vases with a peach-bloom glaze decorated with underglaze copper-red drawings of processions of insects carrying flowers as if they were banners. These, caricatures of Edo period daimyō processions, derive from paintings by artists such as Nishiyama Hōen (1804-1867), themselves possibly inspired by the twelfth century Chōjō giga handscrolls.

    Bought in Japan by Sir Herbert and Lady Ingram in 1908.
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