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Hizen Ware Apothecary Jar with Bird-and-Flower Design


Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita kilns, Hizen Ware Apothecary Jar with Bird-and-Flower Design, 1670s, porcelain with underglaze blue painting, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Morris Schnitzer in honor of Mildred Schnitzer, public domain, 80.65

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Title

Hizen Ware Apothecary Jar with Bird-and-Flower Design

Related Titles

original language: 染付花鳥文瓶

transliterated: Sometsuke kachōmon hei

Date

1670s

Period

Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)

Medium

porcelain with underglaze blue painting

Dimensions (H x W x D)

16 1/4 in x 10 1/4 in diam.

Inscriptions & Markings

inscription: I.C [enclosed by a wreath], cobalt blue underglaze, base Description: The initials I.C. are thought to be those of Johannes Camphuys (1634-1695)

Collection Area

Asian Art

Category

Ceramics

Traditional Ceramics

Object Type

jar

Culture

Japanese

Credit Line

Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Morris Schnitzer in honor of Mildred Schnitzer

Accession Number

80.65

Copyright

public domain

Terms

bird

ceramics

Edo

flowers

Imari

jars

porcelain

underglazing

Place Made

Created in: Kyūshū-chihō

Description

From Objects of Contact: Encounters between Japan and the West

This type of decorated blue-and-white jar, with its swelling belly and narrow neck, was regularly documented in Dutch East India Company records as a Japanese export beginning in 1653. On the base, the initials I.C. are surrounded by a wreath, identifying a private commission for Johannes Camphuys (1634–1695), who was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1684 to 1691. Camphuys traveled to Japan from his base in Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia) three times in the 1670s to serve as overseer of the Dutch trading station at Nagasaki.

History
Exhibitions

2014 Cobalt Blues Portland Art Museum

2020 Objects of Contact: Encounters between Japan and the West Portland Art Museum

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