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Small bulbous vase
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Kanagawa prefecture › Yokohama › Ota › Makuzu kiln-site (place of creation)
- Date
- c. 1895
- Artist/maker
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Makuzu kiln (1871 - 1959) (potter)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, thrown, with 'peach-bloom' glaze
- Dimensions
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5.3 cm (height)
6.9 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.1853
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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. 8 on p. 20, p. 8, illus. pp. 20-21
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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Second floor | Room 36 | Japan
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Second floor | Room 36 | Japan
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Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period
Small bulbous vase with sharply angled sides and rounded rim, covered in an uneven peach-bloom glaze. Impressed seal on base: Makuzu.
So good was Kōzan's imitation of Chinese monochrome glazes that he was accused of forgery. It was not Kōzan who was the forger, but the dealers who sold to foreign clients who could not read the impressed seal marks.
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