Room 37 | Japan 1600-1850 gallery
Discover the arts of the Edo period (1600-1868) from porcelain to lacquer to painting.
Galleries : 175 objects
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Jug in the form of Dutch Baroque metalware
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Saga prefecture › Arita › Arita kiln-sites (place of creation)Europe (original location)Europe › Netherlands (possible original location)
- Date
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c. 1730
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Associated people
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possibly Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, sections separately mould-made, and with red, pink, green, and gold overglaze enamels
- Dimensions
- 29 x 18 x 13 cm max. (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1985.
- Accession no.
- EA1985.15
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), no. 445 on p. 250, p. 223, illus. p. 250
Vickers, Michael, Oliver Impey, and James Allan, From Silver to Ceramic: The Potter's Debt to Metalwork in the Graeco-Roman, Oriental and Islamic Worlds (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1986), pl. 58
Howard, David Sanctuary, John Ayers, and Nelson A. Rockefeller, China for the West: Chinese Porcelain and Other Decorative Arts for Export Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection, 2 vols (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978), cat. vol. i no.110, vol. i pp. 130-131
Glossary
porcelain
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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
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Second floor | Room 37 | Japan
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Second floor | Room 37 | Japan
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