Scheurleer, D.F. Lunsingh, ‘Japans porselein met blauwe decoraties uit de tweede helft van de zeventiende en de eerste helft van de achttiende eeuw’, Mededelingenblad Vrienden van de Nederlandse Ceramiek, 64/65, (1973), pl.122
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 18 July-13 September 1981, and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981, Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition, Deborah Willis, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), no. 249 on p. 90, illus. p. 90
Impey, Oliver, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), no. 1 on p. 38, pp. 20 & 37, illus. p. 38
Jenyns, Soame, Japanese Porcelain, Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, 1965), pl.11b
porcelain, underglaze painting
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.
Painting applied to ceramic material before a transparent, or monochrome or coloured glaze for Islamic objects, is applied. The technique was initially developed in China.
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