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Inverted baluster vase with two cranes
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (Seifū kiln-site) (place of creation)
- Date
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c. 1910
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Artist/maker
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Seifū Yohei III (1851 - 1914) (potter)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with modelled slip decoration, and underglaze painting in blue, black, pink, and yellow
- Dimensions
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44 cm (height)
24 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1993.
- Accession no.
- EA1993.399
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 15 on p. 34, illus. pp. 34-35
Pollard, Clare, Master potter of Meiji Japan: Makuzu Kōzan (1842-1916) and his Workshop, Oxford Oriental monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 72, pl. 29
Glossary (3)
porcelain, slip, 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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slip
A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface or for decorative effect.
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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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- currently in research collection
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Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period
Tall inverted baluster vase with low relief moulding of two cranes in colours on an underglaze blue pine tree, with a pink and white ground. Incised signature on base within two underglaze blue circle: Dai Nihon Seifū zō.
Seifū I had been a pupil of Nin'ami Dōhachi [see EA2000.181] in Kyōto; the family kiln was set up in Gojōzaka. This is an unusually showy piece.
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