Description:
dish with blue and orange floral pattern; dish/bottle
Label Text:
Porcelain was not produced in Japan until the start of the seventeenth century when kaolin (a soft, white clay) was discovered in Arita at the northern edge of the island of Kyushu by an immigrant Korean potter. Over time, a large ceramic industry developed there for domestic use and for export to Europe and eventually the United States.
Imari ware most often refers to the porcelains produced at Arita with decoration in cobalt blue underglaze and red and gold overglaze enamel. The name was taken from the name of the town where the wares were shipped to the Dutch East India Company during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Exports to Europe stopped in the mid-eighteenth century, but were revived again in the Meiji era (1868–1912) as the Japanese government actively promoted Japanese crafts at the world expositions.
Subjects:
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