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Dish with floral decoration in reserve
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- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Saga prefecture › Arita › Arita kiln-sites (place of creation)Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Saga prefecture › Arita › Arita kiln-sites › Yamagoya kiln-site (probable place of creation)
- Date
- c. 1640
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with underglaze painting in blue in reserve against a tenmoku glaze
- Dimensions
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4.5 cm (height)
16 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1986.
- Accession no.
- EA1986.7
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, The Early Porcelain Kilns of Japan: Arita in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century, Oxford Oriental Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), pp. xi & 38, pl. 12a (colour)
Glossary (4)
glaze, porcelain, tenmoku, underglaze painting
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glaze
Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.
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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.
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tenmoku
An iron glaze from Tianmu shan, a Chinese temple complex.
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underglaze painting
Painting applied to ceramic material before a transparent, or monochrome or coloured glaze for Islamic objects, is applied. The technique was initially developed in China.
Location
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Second floor | Room 37 | Japan
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Second floor | Room 37 | Japan
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