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Pear-shaped bottle with a green 'flambé' glaze
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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c. 1890s
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Artist/maker
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probably Ishiguro Gōzō (active c. 1890s) (potter)
- Material and technique
- porcelain, with green 'flambé' glaze
- Dimensions
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22.5 cm (height)
11.5 cm (diameter)
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- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1989.
- Accession no.
- EA1989.13
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 13 on p. 30, p. 8, illus. pp. 30-31
Impey, Oliver, ‘Reflections upon the Arts and Crafts of Meiji Period Japan with Reference to the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum’, Oriental Art, 42/3, (Autumn 1996), p. 12, illus. p. 13 fig. 7
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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- currently in research collection
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Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period
Pear-shaped porcelain bottle with flared neck covered in a green flambé glaze. Impressed gourd-shaped seal on base: Kōji (?) in a double gourd.
Kōzan was experimenting with flambé and transmutation glazes in the manner developed at Limoges and Copenhagen, some of which depended on Chinese originals, from early 1880s. Flambé glazes intermingle colours seamlessly in an amazing variety. We are not sure of the date of this exquisite bottle, but belive it to be from the late nineteenth century.
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