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Coffee pot with phoenixes and flowers
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Details
- Associated place
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Arita kiln-sites (place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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1680 - 1700
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Associated people
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possibly Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with moulded decoration, and underglaze painting in blue; handle pierced for mount
- Dimensions
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26.3 x 19.7 x 19.5 cm max. (height x width x depth)
depth at foot 26.3 x 19.7 x 15.4 cm max. (height x width x depth)
depth at mouth 26.3 x 19.7 x 8.7 cm max. (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.1090
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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. 120 on p. 106, pp. 106 & 206, illus. p. 106
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. 57
Glossary (2)
porcelain, underglaze painting
Location
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- currently in research collection
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