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more on manto-ware
I was quite unconvinced with a lack of information available on English websites (that’s language, not country-specific) on Manto-ware (or Mantoware, Manto ware?), so tried my darnedest to find information in Japanese (that’s both language and country-specific). Afterall, Manto-ware is made in Japan (according to the stamp)!!!
Few Australian people attempted the same searches in English [...]
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乾隆年製陶器 Qinglong porcelain (tea cups)
Saturday 31 October – Another visits to Sham Sui Po. Another ‘Antique’ porcelain purchased!
We bought a pair of hand-painted tea? sake? cups with gold gildng inside (matt, not glossy & gaudy). Beautiful detailed painting of 8 Chinese mythical characters (same for both). Very good condition, with barely visible hairline cracks near the bottom rim, which [...]
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中國民間藝術 Chinese Folk Art (book) 3
Curator of the University Museum & Art Gallery, Yeung Chun-tong 楊春堂（but 木 instead of 土), discusses relationship between Chinese Folk Art prints & porcelain decoration.
…Diaper and net pattens are commonly stamped on green-glazed ceramics of the Western Jin Dynasty. Often found in between these patterns is a bead pattern (Tianjin Teachers print below). This bead [...]
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Tian Shanghai 天上海
Shanghai, China’s proud ever-growing metropolis, with well known turbulent history spanning over recent 100 years (& most probably more).
Description from the book: Colored. Qing Dynasty. Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. 28×50cm.
The use of the railway in China was recorded in a piece of writing of 1875. The upper portion of this work is the depiction of a [...]
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伊万里焼２ Imari Porcelain history 2
Continuing interaction with Chinese porcelain ware & on 18/19th century ‘imitation’ English/European ‘Imari’ ware
Although Japan ‘closed’ itself to Western interaction during the Edo period of Tokugawa Shoguns (1603-1868), apparently, trade of ceramics was significant (according to Jan-Erik Nilsson of gotheborg.com). That makes sense as there seem to be a lot of ceramics in European museums as [...]
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伊万里焼 Imari porcelain history (Japanese? Chinese? English?)
Imari, is a place in South Kyushu Island of Japan, it is actually the name of a port, in Saga prefecture, and in Japan, it is more commonly called Arita-yaki (Arita ware) after the town Arita where many of these porcelains were made. Overseas, it is more commonly known as Imari.
As south of Japan was [...]