Satsuma cup with chrysanthemums and key pattern border
On display
Details
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Title
Satsuma cup with chrysanthemums and key pattern border
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Artist/maker
Tōkōzan (active 1880 - 1920) (potter)Tōkōzan Workshop (active 1880 - late 1920s) (potter) -
Associated place
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Date
c. 1900 -
Material and technique
earthenware, with polychrome overglaze enamels, including gold
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.3 cm (height)
6.9 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 36 | Japan from 1850 -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1956.681
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Catalogue text
Straight sided earthenware cup with a chrysanthemum spray in soft enamels beneath a key-fret border, all over a finely crackled ivory glaze. Signed in gold on side: Satsuma Tōkōzan sei, with a square red seal.
In spite of arguments to the contrary (some of them very heated) it seems clear that the enameled Satsuma wares, sometimes called ‘brocaded wares’ were first made at Kagoshima, in the Satsuma domain, in the middle of the nineteenth century and were imitated in other areas of Japan (Tōkyō, Kyōto, Ōsaka, Yokohama etc.) later.In: Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Glossary of terms
earthenware
Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 22 on p. 48, illus. pp. 48-49
