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Wine ewer with children on a terrace
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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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1700 - 1720
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Associated people
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possibly Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with mould-made decoration, applied with slip, and with polychrome overglaze enamels, including gold and pink colloidal gold
- Dimensions
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16.9 cm (height)
with spout 14.2 cm (width)
12.1 cm (diameter)
lid 3.2 cm max. (height)
lid 7.6 cm (diameter)
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container › vessel › wine-vessel › wine-ewer,
- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.491
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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. 361 on p. 213, illus. p. 213
Glossary (2)
porcelain, 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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slip
A semi-fluid clay applied to a ceramic before glazing either to coat the surface or for decorative effect.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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