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Jug in the form of Dutch Baroque metalware

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Associated place

Asia › Japan › Kyūshū › Saga prefecture › Arita › Arita kiln-sites (place of creation)

Europe › Netherlands (possible original location)

Date

c. 1730
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)

Associated people

possibly Dutch East India Company (VOC) (retailer)

Material and technique

porcelain, sections separately mould-made, and with red, pink, green, and gold overglaze enamels

Dimensions

29 x 18 x 13 cm max. (height x width x depth)

Material index

processed material › ceramic,

processed material,

processed material › metal

Technique index

formed,

covered › coated,

covered › coated

Object type index

container › vessel

No. of items

1

Credit line

Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1985.

Accession no.

EA1985.15
Further reading

Impey, Oliver, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), no. 445 on p. 250, p. 223 | p. 250

Howard, David Sanctuary, John Ayers, and Nelson A. Rockefeller, China for the West: Chinese Porcelain and Other Decorative Arts for Export Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection, 2 vols (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978), vol. i no.110, vol. i pp. 130-131

Vickers, Michael, Oliver Impey, and James Allan, From Silver to Ceramic: The Potter's Debt to Metalwork in the Graeco-Roman, Oriental and Islamic Worlds (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1986), pl. 58

Location

- Second floor | Room 37 | Japan

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