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Blue Bizen ware figure of a phoenix

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Associated place

Asia › Japan › Honshū › Okayama prefecture › Okayama (Bizen kilns) (place of creation)

Date

c. 1900

Material and technique

blue Bizen stoneware, mould-made, with hand-modelled details, and overglaze enamel decoration in gold

Dimensions

27 x 15.4 x 13 cm max. (height x width x depth)

Material index

processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware,

processed material › metal › gold

Technique index

formed › moulded,

moulded,

formed › modelled,

glazed,

covered › coated › glazed,

covered › coated › enamelled

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Object type index

sculpture › figure › figurine

No. of items

1

Credit line

Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.

Accession no.

EA1956.1991

Glossary (2)

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phoenix, stoneware

phoenix

Mythical bird known as hōō in Japan. The Islamic tradition appropriated the far-eastern iconography of the phoenix and used it to represent another mythical bird, the simurgh.
stoneware

Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1200-1300⁰c and is often buff or grey in colour.

Location

- Second floor | Room 36 | Japan

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