This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... out of over 350 specimens illustrated not twenty can be fairly classed as export wares, and these are necessary to complete the sequence and bring the various sections down to the period when true Japanese feeling disappeared, and I virtually ceased to collect. The following extract from the Handbook named ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... out of over 350 specimens illustrated not twenty can be fairly classed as export wares, and these are necessary to complete the sequence and bring the various sections down to the period when true Japanese feeling disappeared, and I virtually ceased to collect. The following extract from the Handbook named will give an idea of the kind of information to which I am referred. Speaking of the kiln of Ota, near Yokohama, where the imitation Satsuma, which has led to so much misconception about the ware, was made about twenty-five years ago, it says that the proprietor of the factory " brought over a Kiyomidzu porcelain-maker, named Kozan, who was living at Makudsu-ga-hara, in Kioto, and who worked with such success that the original Satsuma ware lost its value." No wonder Mr. Morse is so astray about ' Old Satsuma' if this is the kind of information he believes. " Mr. Bowes' estimate as to the artistic quality of the pottery of Tamba, Totomi, and certain other provinces is invalidated because his material, as revealed by his catalogue, is altogether too meagre and imperfect upon which to base an opinion." Certainly the examples of this chajin pottery which my friends procured for me do not lead me to wish for more of it. And it is significant that the Japanese Government appears to have been of the same opinion, for in selecting the specimens for the South Kensington Museum they sent only a little tea jar and a water-pot of Tamba, and not a single piece of Totomi, whereas I am the unfortunate possessor of two specimens of each of these sombre wares. " A piece of genuine Dohachi. judging from the description and characteristic marks, is commented upon as follows: ' Stated by connoisseurs to have been made by Dohachi about 1850, but it bears the...
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