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Wine ewer with chrysanthemums
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Saga prefecture › Arita › Arita kiln-sites (place of creation)Europe (place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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1st half of the 18th century
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Associated people
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possibly Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with red overglaze enamel, and gold and pink colloidal gold; mould-made decoration, luted to the ewer; silver gilt or gilt bronze mounts
- Dimensions
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15.2 cm (height)
13 cm (width)
11 cm (diameter)
at base 6.9 cm (diameter)
lid 2.7 cm max. (height)
lid 7.2 cm (diameter)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › bronze
- Technique index
- Object type index
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container › vessel › wine-vessel › wine-ewer,
- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.425
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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. 380 on p. 221, illus. p. 221
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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