slayerwulfe: Museum __ Japanese Stoneware Pillow

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Try to find any Japanese stoneware pillow anywhere, even to just see one in a museum is unusual.

Japanese Stoneware Pillow

i,m seeing an amount of reproductions of this piece, do research before you invest in anything.

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   Cobalt lotus
   I don' t  actually believe this is cobalt, i have other images i should post.
   this may be an oxide of  lapis lazuli  domestic, not something like Tunisian.
   this is a lotus and the bold brush strokes are clues that talk to you.
   
   

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interior 

interior bottom

interior right

interior left

interior top showing where some glaze was introduced. i was trying to show what appear as drips, most likely the result of chemical water.

rear view

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inside view

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inside view

inside view

Below is another piece of Japanese stoneware that could have been distributed by the V O C
32 inches length, 24 inches height. Almost totally hand sculpted , the body is a heavy grog.
(grog is crushed fired clay, that is an addition of up to 30%, to add structural integrity to
unfired clay when working with larger sculptures.)

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Japanese stoneware dish, about 1850

stoneware and porcelain were also decorated with transparent enamels. It's not until the 1870's that we see a complete change to lesser in decoration. I'm not sure if it was Hanover or Brinkley that said upon visiting the decorating facilities of Nippon that it looked like flat oil paint on questionable ware.

I realize brush strokes like this are not very, if at all appealing to the American or European market, but it wasn't made for us but themselves.

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This last piece is Chinese, Sir Harry Garner mentions dishes like this in his book Oriental Blue & White  first american edition published by Thomas Yoseloff  New York, 1964

Believed to be Cheng Te by most, myself included even though some are marked Hung Wu. That they are so marked does not mean anything except they bear that mark. This piece unmarked being Taoist or Buddhist and definitely not imperial

There are interesting points about this decoration such as the frog spawn that is depicted from top to bottom on the right side.