Bowl with pine branch
Details
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Title
Bowl with pine branch
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Artist/maker
Miyagawa Hanzan (1859 - 1940) (potter)style of Nin’ami Dōhachi (1783 - 1855) (potter) -
Associated place
Japan (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1925 -
Material and technique
earthenware, thrown, with hand-modelled, cut and pierced decoration, covered in white slip, with underglaze painting in blue and brown, and overglaze enamel in gold
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.5 cm (height)
18.2 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 2000.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA2000.181
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Catalogue text
Pottery bowl, the edge partly waved and pierced, decorated with underglaze blue and brown and slip with a pine branch. The exterior similar. In the manner of Dōhachi. Signed: Kōzan.
After the death of Kōzan I, Hanzan, by then Kōzan II, went through a period of the making of wares for Japanese use, usually related to the tea ceremony, in the manner of Nin'ami Dōhachi (1783-1855), a remote follower of Nonomura Ninsei (c. 1574-1660/6), using broad calligraphic style decoration on asymmetric shapes, and slip decoration.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
slip
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. 12 on p. 28, pp. 8 & 34, illus. pp. 28-29
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