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Satsuma cup with chrysanthemums and key pattern border
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- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Kagoshima prefecture › Kagoshima (Tōkōzan Kiln) (place of creation)Europe (probable original location)
- Date
- c. 1900
- Artist/maker
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Tōkōzan (active 1880 - 1920) (potter)Tōkōzan Workshop (active 1880 - late 1920s) (potter)
- Material and technique
- earthenware, with polychrome overglaze enamels, including gold
- Dimensions
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7.3 cm (height)
6.9 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA1956.681
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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. 22 on p. 48, illus. pp. 48-49
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earthenware
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earthenware
Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1000-1200⁰c. The resulting ceramic is non-vitreous and varies in colour from dark red to yellow.
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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
Straight sided earthenware cup with a chrysanthemum spray in soft enamels beneath a key-fret border, all over a finely crackled ivory glaze. Signed in gold on side: Satsuma Tōkōzan sei, with a square red seal.
In spite of arguments to the contrary (some of them very heated) it seems clear that the enameled Satsuma wares, sometimes called ‘brocaded wares’ were first made at Kagoshima, in the Satsuma domain, in the middle of the nineteenth century and were imitated in other areas of Japan (Tōkyō, Kyōto, Ōsaka, Yokohama etc.) later.
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