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
glaze, porcelain
Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.
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.
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