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Octagonal dish with Hob in the Well design
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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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c. 1700
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Artist/maker
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Kakiemon workshops (established mid-17th century) (potter)
- Associated people
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Sima Guang (1019 - 1086) (subject)possibly Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- nigoshide porcelain, with polychrome overglaze enamels, including gold; iron-brown glaze on the rim, with gilded decoration
- Dimensions
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3.3 cm (height)
20.4 cm max. (diameter)
at foot 11.2 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.573
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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. 185 on p. 74, illus. p. 74
Impey, Oliver, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), no. 230 on p. 157, pp. 132, 145 & 157, illus. p. 157
Jenyns, Soame, Japanese Porcelain, Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, 1965), pl.76c
Glossary (2)
glaze, porcelain
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glaze
Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.
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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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Second floor | Room 35 | West Meets East
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Second floor | Room 35 | West Meets East
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