Hizen Ware Apothecary Jar with Bird-and-Flower Design
Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita kilns, Hizen Ware Apothecary Jar with Bird-and-Flower Design, 1670s, porcelain with underglaze blue painting, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Morris Schnitzer in honor of Mildred Schnitzer, public domain, 80.65
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- Title
Hizen Ware Apothecary Jar with Bird-and-Flower Design
- Related Titles
original language: 染付花鳥文瓶
transliterated: Sometsuke kachōmon hei
- Date
1670s
- Period
Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Medium
porcelain with underglaze blue painting
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
16 1/4 in x 10 1/4 in diam.
- Inscriptions & Markings
inscription: I.C [enclosed by a wreath], cobalt blue underglaze, base Description: The initials I.C. are thought to be those of Johannes Camphuys (1634-1695)
- Collection Area
Asian Art
- Category
Ceramics
Traditional Ceramics
- Object Type
jar
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Morris Schnitzer in honor of Mildred Schnitzer
- Accession Number
80.65
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
- Place Made
Created in: Kyūshū-chihō
From Objects of Contact: Encounters between Japan and the West
This type of decorated blue-and-white jar, with its swelling belly and narrow neck, was regularly documented in Dutch East India Company records as a Japanese export beginning in 1653. On the base, the initials I.C. are surrounded by a wreath, identifying a private commission for Johannes Camphuys (1634–1695), who was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1684 to 1691. Camphuys traveled to Japan from his base in Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia) three times in the 1670s to serve as overseer of the Dutch trading station at Nagasaki.
- Exhibitions
2014 Cobalt Blues Portland Art Museum
2020 Objects of Contact: Encounters between Japan and the West Portland Art Museum