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Baluster jar with flowers
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Saga prefecture › Arita › Arita kiln-sites (place of creation)Europe (probable original location)Europe › United Kingdom › England (possible original location)
- Date
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c. 1670
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with polychrome overglaze enamels
- Dimensions
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with lid 27.3 cm (height)
17.5 cm (diameter)
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container › vessel › jar › baluster jar
- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Presented by M. C. and J. W. Christie-Miller, 1976.
- Accession no.
- EA1976.52
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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 on p. 76, p. 23, illus. p. 76
Fitski, Menno, Kakiemon Porcelain: A Handbook (Leiden: Leiden University Press and Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2011), illus. p. 20 fig. 10
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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