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Mug of European form with dragons, flowers, and birds
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Saga prefecture › Arita › Arita kiln-sites (place of creation)Europe › United Kingdom › England (Ettington Hall) (original location)
- Date
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c. 1680
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, moulded, painted in iron-brown, and with polychrome enamels
- Dimensions
- 14.5 x 12.5 x 10.5 cm max. (height x width x depth)
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container › vessel › drinking-vessel › mug
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of an anonymous benefactor, and the Story Fund, 2001.
- Accession no.
- EA2001.7
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), no. 62 b on p. 77, p. 82, illus. p. 77
Glossary
porcelain
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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 37 | Japan
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Second floor | Room 37 | Japan
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