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Vase with camellia tree and two birds
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Details
- Associated place
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Arita kiln-sites (place of creation)Kakiemon kiln-sites (possible place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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2nd half of the 17th century
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Artist/maker
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possibly Kakiemon workshops (established mid-17th century) (potter)
- Associated people
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Soame Jenyns (1904 - 1976) (owner)possibly Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with polychrome overglaze enamels; gold lacquer repair
- Dimensions
- 27 x 13.5 x 10 cm max. (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.672
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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. 197 on p. 77, illus. p. 77
Impey, Oliver, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), no. 80 on p. 85, illus. p. 85
Glossary (2)
lacquer, porcelain
Location
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- currently in research collection
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