Kyo-Satsuma dish with landscape using westernized perspective
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Details
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Title
Kyo-Satsuma dish with landscape using westernized perspective
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Artist/maker
Kinkōzan Sōbei VII (1868 - 1927) (potter)Kinkōzan Workshop (active 1640s - 1920s)Itsuzan (active late 19th century - early 20th century) -
Associated place
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Date
c. 1900 -
Material and technique
earthenware, with underglaze painting in blue, and polychrome overglaze enamels, including gold
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Object type
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Dimensions
5.5 cm (height)
36.7 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1992.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 36 | Japan from 1850 -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1992.71
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Catalogue text
Earthenware plate decorated with a landscape in westernized perspective, in detailed polychrome enamels with underglaze blue and gilding, within a lobed border. The image signed: Itsuzan. Signed under the base, a seal-mark in underglaze blue within a gold key fret border Kinkōzan zō. With an iron red seal: Chokusai. A further factory label in English.
The Kinkōzan factory was an old one, having made Kyō-yaki for several generations. The sixth generation master, modernized the Kyōto factory, specializing in high quality Satsuma-style decorated wares. His son, Sōbei VII (1868-1927), succeeded his father in 1884. In this fairly typical plate, of excellent quality, it is interesting to see how the painter (presumably Itsuzan) has not quite understood European geometric perspective, for though there is recession vertically, there is no fixed viewpoint, and the eye is always at a right-angle to the horizontal area, just as if viewing a Japanese screen.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
underglaze painting
Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 18 on p. 40, pp. 7 & 42, illus. pp. 40-41
