Jar

Place of OriginJapan

DateEarly Edo Period (1615-1716), about 1680

Dimensions10 5/8 × 8 1/2 × 4 5/8 × 4 7/8 in. (27 × 21.6 × 11.7 × 12.3 cm)

MediumKakiemon porcelain.

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LineGiven in memory of J. Arthur McLean by the Craft Club of Toledo

Object number

1968.7

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 35

DescriptionWhite porcelain with blue underglaze design.

Label TextJapanese porcelains with over glaze painting originated in Artia Province and were meant to imitate Chinese porcelain. Kakiemon ware is an ivory-white porcelain decorated with graceful designs of the purely Japanese style of painting known as lamato-e. This ware is named for Sakuida Kakiemon, one of Japan’s great geniuses of ceramic production in the 1600s.Comparative ReferencesSee also Jenyns, Soame, Japanese Porcelain, 1965, pl. 31 A, 54 A, 58 B (ii).