Articles on Antique Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art

Antique Japanese Porcelain

Early Japanese Porcelain

30 Mar 2021, 5:13 p.m. • Anthony Gray

Antique Japanese Porcelain The earliest Japanese ceramics made in Japan date back to the Neolithic period but porcelain production began in Japan several centuries after it was first made in C...


Antique Japanese Cloisonné

Cultural Environment in which Antique Japanese Cloisonné was Created

30 Mar 2021, 10:25 p.m. • An experienced collector

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Konnyaku – How was it done, and when, and what are the implications?

30 Mar 2021, 10:09 p.m. • Irene Finch

Konnyaku dish 1 This unusual Arita export dish can be dated in three different ways: by the stencilled deer, by the konnyaku stamped groups of leaves, and by the piecrust-moulded wave-borde...


Irene Finch: Some of my Favourite Pieces

30 Mar 2021, 10:03 p.m. • Irene Finch

I was asked to describe a favourite piece of mine and offered four. These come from an unusual part of my collection relating to the entity “Lost Century”. They come from a time when I collected ...


Thoughts on a Japanese Teapot

Japanese Arita Blue and White Teapot, Edo Period (1603-1868), c. 1720

27 Jul 2021, 4:24 p.m. • Lucy Farley

Ho no ōki oranda-bune ya kumo no mine A Dutch ship With many sails: The billowing clouds. Shiki, trans. Blyth Olfert Dapper, View of Mount Carmel, Etching, Amsterdam: 1677. British...


Blue and White Kakiemon

30 Mar 2021, 10:36 p.m. •

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