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Faceted jar with green glaze
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Saga prefecture › Arita › Arita kiln-sites (place of creation)
- Date
- 1620 - 1640
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with green celadon glaze; gold lacquer repair
- Dimensions
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18.5 cm (height)
15 cm (diameter)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1987.
- Accession no.
- EA1987.34
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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), p. xi, pl. 9b (colour)
Glossary (3)
glaze, lacquer, porcelain
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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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lacquer
Chinese and Japanese lacquer is made from the sap of the lacquer tree, which is indigenous to Eastern China. It is applied to wood as a varnish or for decorative effect. In India and the Middle East, lacquer is made from the deposit of the lac insect.
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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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