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Baluster jar with chrysanthemum, peony, and prunus flowers
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Saga prefecture › Arita › Arita kiln-sites (place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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1701 - c.1740
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Associated people
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possibly Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with sprig-moulded decoration luted to the jar with glaze, and with underglaze painting in blue, and polychrome overglaze enamels, including gold and pink colloidal gold
- Dimensions
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with lid 39 cm (height)
without lid 26.7 cm (height)
lid 12.8 cm max. (height)
21.5 cm (diameter)
at foot 11.8 cm (diameter)
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container › vessel › jar › baluster jar
- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.469
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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. 320 on p. 197, illus. p. 197
Glossary (4)
glaze, luted, porcelain, underglaze painting
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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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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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