Globular vase with a shrimp
Details
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Title
Globular vase with a shrimp
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Artist/maker
Miyagawa Hanzan (1859 - 1940) (potter) -
Associated place
Japan (place of creation) -
Date
1925 - 1940 -
Material and technique
stoneware, thrown, with engraved and modelled decoration, partly covered with a green celadon glaze
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 cm (height)
24 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1990.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.1
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Catalogue text
Globular stoneware vase partially glazed in pale green, leaving much of the rough body unglazed, with engraved decoration on the neck and body, with a prawn modelled in high relief on the body. Impressed seal on the base: Makuza in a double gourd.
Shortly before Kōzan I's death in 1916, the factory began to make stoneware vessels in the manner of the Iga kilns, admittedly somewhat remotely, even using the local Shigaraki clay and glazes; most of these are based on old Japanese shapes, usually related to the tea ceremony - this might have been a mizusashi, though the box does not say so.
The original box (lost before the pot reached the museum), was inscribed with the character for Iga (Christie's, London, 7 March, 1989, lot 453).In: Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Glossary of terms
glaze
stoneware
Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 11 on p. 26, p. 8, illus. pp. 26-27
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