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Gallipot with Dutch decoration of figures attacking shishi, or lion dogs
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- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Saga prefecture › Arita › Arita kiln-sites (place of creation)Europe › Netherlands (place of creation)Europe (original location)Europe › Netherlands (probable original location)
- Date
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1st half of the 18th century
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Associated people
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probably Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with polychrome overglaze enamels
- Dimensions
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48 cm (height)
29 cm (diameter)
at foot 16.3 cm (diameter)
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container › vessel › pot › ointment-pot › gallipot
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.1804
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 18 July-13 September 1981, and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981, Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition, Deborah Willis, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), no. 235 on p. 87, illus. p. 87
Impey, Oliver, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), no. 281 on p. 180, p. 104, illus. p. 180
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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- currently in research collection
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