Impey, Oliver, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), no. 177 on p. 131, p. 141, illus. p. 131
Fitski, Menno, Kakiemon Porcelain: A Handbook (Leiden: Leiden University Press and Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2011), illus. p. 45 fig. 40 & p. 107 fig. 121
porcelain, underglaze painting
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.
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.
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