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Details
- Other Titles
- Imari ware covered jar
Covered jar - Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- 18th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain with red and gold overglaze enamels
- Dimensions
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83.5 x 40.0 cm
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a - jar, 59 x 40 x 22.2 cm
b - lid, 26.5 x 26.5 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the JS Watkins Memorial Fund 1984
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 151.1984.a-b
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Arita ware
Works in the collection
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About
Arita ware or Imari ware?
Arita ware (porcelain made around the Arita region) is commonly referred to as 'Imari ware' both in Japan and overseas because porcelain products from the region were transported to domestic and overseas markets through the port of Imari, approximately 15km north of Arita. For the sake of consistency, all porcelain works produced during the Edo period in the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection are catalogued according to the production site, e.g. Arita ware and Hasami ware.
Imari itself was home to the Nabeshima ware, exclusively produced at the Ôkawachi kilns for official use of the ruling Nabeshima clan. With the establishment of the Meiji government in 1868 the independent fiefs of the Edo period were replaced by prefectures in 1871, and the Ôkawachi kilns entered the free market. The term 'Imari ware' (or Ôkawachi ware) now applies to works produced in Imari from 1871 to the present.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Glorious, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 May 2017–06 Jan 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 264-265 (colour illus.). The colour illus. on page 265 is a detail of this work.
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