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Plate with Dutch East India Company monogram
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Saga prefecture › Arita › Arita kiln-sites (place of creation)Asia (possible original location)Europe › Netherlands (possible original location)
- Date
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1660 - 1690
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Associated people
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Dutch East India Company (VOC) (owner)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with underglaze painting in blue
- Dimensions
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6.8 cm (height)
39.7 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by M. C. and J. W. Christie-Miller, 1976.
- Accession no.
- EA1976.53
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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. 27 on p. 51, p. 20, illus. p. 51
Impey, Oliver, The Early Porcelain Kilns of Japan: Arita in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century, Oxford Oriental Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), ppp. xiii, 11, 28 & 103, illus. p. 11 fig. 5 (black and white)
Glossary (2)
porcelain, underglaze painting
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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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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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