Small bulbous vase
Details
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Title
Small bulbous vase
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Artist/maker
Miyagawa Kōzan (1842 - 1916) (potter)Makuzu kiln (1871 - 1959) (potter) -
Associated place
Makuzu kiln-site (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1895 -
Material and technique
porcelain, thrown, with 'peach-bloom' glaze
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
5.3 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
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1956.1853
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Catalogue text
Small bulbous vase with sharply angled sides and rounded rim, covered in an uneven peach-bloom glaze. Impressed seal on base: Makuzu.
So good was Kōzan's imitation of Chinese monochrome glazes that he was accused of forgery. It was not Kōzan who was the forger, but the dealers who sold to foreign clients who could not read the impressed seal marks.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. 8 on p. 20, p. 8, illus. pp. 20-21
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