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Spittoon with flowering plants and butterflies
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Saga prefecture › Arita › Arita kiln-sites › Nangawara › Kakiemon kiln-sites (place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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mid-18th century
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Artist/maker
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Kakiemon workshops (established mid-17th century) (potter)
- Associated people
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possibly Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- nigoshide porcelain, probably thrown, with base and press-moulded rim luted together, and with polychrome overglaze enamels; iron-brown painting on the rim
- Dimensions
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6.9 cm (height)
11.5 cm max. (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
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formed › moulded › press moulded,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.575
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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. 220 on p. 153, illus. p. 153
Glossary (2)
luted, porcelain
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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.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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