Antique Japanese Awaji Ceramic
Small Blue Flower Frog Duck Sculpture
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Type: Sculptural Flower Frog
Material: Ceramic Pottery
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912) or Taisho Period (1912-1926)
Origin/Maker: Awaji ware 淡路焼, Awajishima, Japan. Unsigned.
A Japanese Majolica, often in bright simple glazes (which often show some crackle), most often in green or yellow, but in an almost unlimited variety and combination of colors. Vases often have chipped bases. Sometimes in Art Nouveau or Art Deco forms. Often with carved designs of flowers.
Usually in the form of vases or tea ware, rarely as sculpture, except for some vases with raised relief decorations of dragons (these vases are most commonly in blue). Sometimes wrapped in rattan or silver wire (note that not all wrapped pottery is Awaji, much of it is Kyoto ware).
Similar to some Kyoto ware (some are very similarly glazed, only with different marks, and Kyoto ware was also sometimes wrapped), Satsuma ware (has a similar earthware composition, and has a similar glaze crackle), Wakayama Izumo ware (also often has a similar glaze crackle, and is also often in a dark green glaze).
From Wikipedia:
Awaji ware (淡路焼, Awaji-yaki), also known as Minpei or Mimpei ware, is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally made on Awaji Island in the eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea, western Japan. Some pieces are porcelain, others described as glazed "porcelaneous ware" or "pottery".
Awaji ware was founded in the early 1830s by Minpei Kashu (1796–1871) (last name also spelled Mimpei) from Iga village. Coming from a wealthy trading family, he was a scholar of classical literature and skillful in the art of chanoyu. He became concerned about the development of industrial resources in his province and devoted himself to the manufacture of ceramics, which he had studied under Ogata Shuhei (1788-1839), a famous Kyoto potter. Returning to his village after his studies, he established kilns in the fifth year of Tenpō (1835/1836) and devoted his whole fortune to his enterprises. Some sources give an earlier founding year of 1831. Lord Hachisuka of Awaji Province subsequently subsidized Minpei's manufactory and appointed him head of the workshops. Thus his efforts were successful, and his manufactory reached a prosperity such that its production equaled in value the rice harvest of the eleven surrounding villages. After Minpei's death in the second year of Bunkyū (1862) his successors continued manufacturing ceramics, which became a source of wealth for the province.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has nine pieces of Minpei ware in its permanent collection.
Awaji ware pieces are of a white or cream-colored clay and a blue or yellow glaze, sometimes also green, sharing similarities with sancai colours. There are pieces skillfully imitating Annan ware's articles and blue and white or blue-decorated porcelains.
Size: 1 3/4" long (4.445 cm), 1 1/4" wide (3.175 cm), 1 1/16" tall (2.69875 cm)
Weight: 1.1 oz (30 g)
Provenance:
Present: Ryan Snooks collection of Japanese & Asian Decorative Art
Previous: Private Collection
Collected:
Condition: Item is used in good condition commensurate with age, see photos. Some light surface wear and staining.
Subject: Small Awaji ceramic four-holed flower frog in the shape of a Mandarin Duck, with a blue glaze.
Location:
Antique Japanese Awaji Ceramic Small Blue Flower Frog Duck Sculpture
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See also:
Type: Sculptural Flower Frog
Material: Ceramic Pottery
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912) or Taisho Period (1912-1926)
Origin/Maker: Awaji ware 淡路焼, Awajishima, Japan. Unsigned.
A Japanese Majolica, often in bright simple glazes (which often show some crackle), most often in green or yellow, but in an almost unlimited variety and combination of colors. Vases often have chipped bases. Sometimes in Art Nouveau or Art Deco forms. Often with carved designs of flowers.
Usually in the form of vases or tea ware, rarely as sculpture, except for some vases with raised relief decorations of dragons (these vases are most commonly in blue). Sometimes wrapped in rattan or silver wire (note that not all wrapped pottery is Awaji, much of it is Kyoto ware).
Similar to some Kyoto ware (some are very similarly glazed, only with different marks, and Kyoto ware was also sometimes wrapped), Satsuma ware (has a similar earthware composition, and has a similar glaze crackle), Wakayama Izumo ware (also often has a similar glaze crackle, and is also often in a dark green glaze).
From Wikipedia:
Awaji ware (淡路焼, Awaji-yaki), also known as Minpei or Mimpei ware, is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally made on Awaji Island in the eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea, western Japan. Some pieces are porcelain, others described as glazed "porcelaneous ware" or "pottery".
Awaji ware was founded in the early 1830s by Minpei Kashu (1796–1871) (last name also spelled Mimpei) from Iga village. Coming from a wealthy trading family, he was a scholar of classical literature and skillful in the art of chanoyu. He became concerned about the development of industrial resources in his province and devoted himself to the manufacture of ceramics, which he had studied under Ogata Shuhei (1788-1839), a famous Kyoto potter. Returning to his village after his studies, he established kilns in the fifth year of Tenpō (1835/1836) and devoted his whole fortune to his enterprises. Some sources give an earlier founding year of 1831. Lord Hachisuka of Awaji Province subsequently subsidized Minpei's manufactory and appointed him head of the workshops. Thus his efforts were successful, and his manufactory reached a prosperity such that its production equaled in value the rice harvest of the eleven surrounding villages. After Minpei's death in the second year of Bunkyū (1862) his successors continued manufacturing ceramics, which became a source of wealth for the province.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has nine pieces of Minpei ware in its permanent collection.
Awaji ware pieces are of a white or cream-colored clay and a blue or yellow glaze, sometimes also green, sharing similarities with sancai colours. There are pieces skillfully imitating Annan ware's articles and blue and white or blue-decorated porcelains.
Size: 1 3/4" long (4.445 cm), 1 1/4" wide (3.175 cm), 1 1/16" tall (2.69875 cm)
Weight: 1.1 oz (30 g)
Provenance:
Present: Ryan Snooks collection of Japanese & Asian Decorative Art
Previous: Private Collection
Collected:
Condition: Item is used in good condition commensurate with age, see photos. Some light surface wear and staining.
Subject: Small Awaji ceramic four-holed flower frog in the shape of a Mandarin Duck, with a blue glaze.
Location:
Antique Japanese Awaji Ceramic Small Blue Flower Frog Duck Sculpture
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