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Lobed baluster jar with pavilions and temples in a landscape
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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 › Nangawara › Kakiemon kiln-sites (possible place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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c. 1670
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Artist/maker
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possibly Kakiemon workshops (established mid-17th century) (potter)
- Associated people
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possibly Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, individual sections thrown, luted, and incised, with underglaze painting in blue, and polychrome overglaze enamels
- Dimensions
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35.2 cm (height)
28.5 cm max. (diameter)
at foot 15 cm (diameter)
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container › vessel › jar › baluster jar
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.687
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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. 155 on p. 67, illus. p. 67 & pl. III (colour)
Impey, Oliver, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), no. 190 on p. 138, pp. 11, 27, & 139, illus. p. 138
Jenyns, Soame, Japanese Porcelain, Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, 1965), pl.49c
Piper, David, and Christopher White, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1995), no. 90 on p. 89, illus. p. 88 fig. 90
Glossary (3)
luted, porcelain, underglaze painting
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luted
The fusion of parts of ceramics using dilute clay slip.
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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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- currently in research collection
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