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Vase with narcissi and a wagtail
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (place of creation)
- Date
- c. 1900
- Artist/maker
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Seifū Yohei III (1851 - 1914) (potter)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, thrown, with moulded decoration under an ivory-coloured glaze
- Dimensions
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28.7 cm (height)
23.5 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by David Hyatt King, 1993.
- Accession no.
- EA1993.398
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 14 on p. 32, illus. pp. 32-33
Pollard, Clare, Master potter of Meiji Japan: Makuzu Kōzan (1842-1916) and his Workshop, Oxford Oriental monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 62, pl. 19
Impey, Oliver, ‘Reflections upon the Arts and Crafts of Meiji Period Japan with Reference to the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum’, Oriental Art, 42/3, (Autumn 1996), p. 12, illus. p. 14 fig. 10
Glossary (2)
glaze, porcelain
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glaze
Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.
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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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- currently in research collection
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Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period
Porcelain vase of tapering shape with wide shoulders & indented mouth. Decorated in low relief self-coloured on an ivory ground, with narcissus & a wagtail. Incised signature on base: Dai Nihon Seifū zō (Great Japan made by Seifū.)
Where Makuzu Kōzan won prizes at the International Expositions, Seifū Yohei (1851-1914) won more prizes at the domestic Expositions, a nice comment on subtle differences of taste; in the Fourth National Industrial Exposition in 1895, the extremely knowledgable judges commented "the shape [of the vase] is perfect... and his skill is unparalleled in Japan... He is a model for other potters". He was the son of the Maruyama school painter Okada Ryōhei, studied painting under the nanga artist Tanomura Chokunyū (1814-1907), and then was adopted by Seifū II, becoming Seifū III in 1878.
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