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Kendi with panels depicting kirin, or horned creatures, among fire-cloudsside

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Kendi with panels depicting kirin, or horned creatures, among fire-clouds

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    Associated place
    Arita kiln-sites (place of creation)
    Europe (probable original location)
    England (possible original location)
    Date
    late 17th century
    Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
    Associated people
    Soame Jenyns (1904 - 1976) (owner)
    Material and technique
    porcelain, with polychrome overglaze enamels
    Dimensions
    depth at foot 19.4 x 17.5 x 9.1 cm max. (height x width x depth)
    depth at mouth 19.4 x 17.5 x 7.4 cm max. (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    porcelain,
    enamel
    Technique index
    glazed,
    glazed,
    enamelled
    Object type index
    kendi
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.642

  • Further reading

    Impey, Oliver, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), no. 65 on p. 78, p. 78, illus. p. 78

Glossary

porcelain

Location

    • currently in research collection

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