Pear-shaped bottle with a green 'flambé' glaze
Details
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Title
Pear-shaped bottle with a green 'flambé' glaze
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Artist/maker
probably Ishiguro Kōkō (active c. 1890s) (potter) -
Associated place
Tōkyō (Sumida kiln-site) (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1890s
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912) -
Material and technique
porcelain, with green 'flambé' glaze
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22.5 cm (height)
11.5 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1989.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1989.13
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Catalogue text
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.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
porcelain
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
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