Vase depicting a ship in a stormy sea
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Details
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Title
Vase depicting a ship in a stormy sea
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Artist/maker
Namikawa Sōsuke (1847 - 1910) (potter)Hōen (active c. 1880s) -
Associated place
Tōkyō (place of creation) -
Date
early 1880s -
Material and technique
porcelain, thrown, with polychrome overglaze enamels
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Object type
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Dimensions
37.3 cm (height)
21 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1999.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 36 | Japan from 1850 -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1999.42
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Catalogue text
Porcelain vase with enamelled depiction of a ship in difficulties in a violent thunderstorm. Signed on base in iron red: Dai Nihon Tōkyō Namikawa sei; Hōen ga (Great Japan Tōkyō, made by Namikawa; painted by Hōen).
Namikawa Sōsuke had moved the Shippō Kaisha factory from Nagoya to Tōkyō when he took it over in 1880, continuing to make cloisonné enamel, but he also seems to have had other factories, or at least acted as agent for other factories making cloisonné on a porcelain body and porcelain itself. Very few examples of porcelain signed by this factory (or these factories) have been identified. The painter is identified as Hōen (not Nishiyama Hōen), but is otherwise unknown.In: Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Glossary of terms
porcelain
Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 17 on p. 38, illus. pp. 38-39
