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Watch-face stand with Father Time and a cherub
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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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c. 1780
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Associated people
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possibly Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, modelled, with underglaze painting in blue, and polychrome overglaze enamels, including gold; reverse unglazed, with traces of bamboo and lacquer
- Dimensions
- 29 x 15 x 2 cm max. (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1985.
- Accession no.
- EA1985.16
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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. 434 on p. 245, p. 223, illus. p. 245
Vickers, Michael, Oliver Impey, and James Allan, From Silver to Ceramic: The Potter's Debt to Metalwork in the Graeco-Roman, Oriental and Islamic Worlds (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1986), pl. 61
Howard, David Sanctuary, John Ayers, and Nelson A. Rockefeller, China for the West: Chinese Porcelain and Other Decorative Arts for Export Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection, 2 vols (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978), cat. vol. ii no.115, vol ii p. 136
Glossary (3)
lacquer, porcelain, underglaze painting
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lacquer
Chinese and Japanese lacquer is made from the sap of the lacquer tree, which is indigenous to Eastern China. It is applied to wood as a varnish or for decorative effect. In India and the Middle East, lacquer is made from the deposit of the lac insect.
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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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underglaze painting
Painting applied to ceramic material before a transparent, or monochrome or coloured glaze for Islamic objects, is applied. The technique was initially developed in China.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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