Browse: 1 object
Stack of stoneware dishes surmounted by a porcelain dish
-
Details
- Associated place
-
Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Saga prefecture › Arita › Arita kiln-sites › Mukae-no-hara kiln-site (place of creation)
- Date
- mid-17th century
- Material and technique
- stoneware; porcelain, glazed
- Dimensions
- 7 x 8 x 7 cm max. (height x width x depth)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- EAP.5016
-
Further reading
Impey, Oliver, The Early Porcelain Kilns of Japan: Arita in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century, Oxford Oriental Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), pp. 58, 60, 111 & 117, illus. p. 59 fig. 48
Glossary (3)
porcelain, stoneware, waster
-
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.
-
stoneware
Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1200-1300⁰c and is often buff or grey in colour.
-
waster
Mis-fired pottery of no commercial value that would probably have been discarded by the potter.
Location
-
-
Second floor | Room 37 | Japan
-
Second floor | Room 37 | Japan
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Galleries
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum