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Bottle with three cartouches, each depicting a sage by a tree
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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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1660 - 1680
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Associated people
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possibly Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with polychrome overglaze enamels
- Dimensions
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41 cm (height)
20.5 cm (diameter)
at foot 13 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.689
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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. 215 on p. 82, illus. p. 82
Impey, Oliver, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), no. 44 on pp. 64-65, pp. 11, 23, 63, & 65, illus. p. 64
Jenyns, Soame, Japanese Porcelain, Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, 1965), pl.85b
Imaizumi Motosuke, Ko-Imari to Ko-Kutani (Tokyo: Yusankatu, 1974)
Glossary
porcelain
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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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