bottle
- Museum number
- 1980,0801.1
- Description
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Bulbous bottle vase. Peonies. Made of porcelain decorated in underglaze green and purple. Signed.
- Production date
- 1890-1900
- Dimensions
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Height: 49.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Smith et al 1990
A brilliant technician, claiming tenth-generation descent from the early seventeenth-century potter Miyagawa Yukansai, Makuzu Kozan moved from his native Kyoto to Yokohama in 1870 and there manufactured an extraordinary variety of porcelains mostly for export to the West. This large piece shows his mastery of moulding and his success in the difficult process of firing colours other than blue under the glaze. Pieces of this sort both inspired and were inspired by the 'art nouveau' movement.
See also:
'Le Japonisme' (Japonisumu ten), Grand Palais, Paris, and the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1988, no. 67.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1993 12 Sep-12 Dec, Germany, Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Japan and Europe: 1543-1929
- Acquisition date
- 1980
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1980,0801.1
