Antique Japanese vase Imari

Antique Japanese porcelain vase Imari, 19th century. Dimensions: 25.5 X 14.0 cm.

Japanese porcelain Imari were exported to Europe in large quantities, especially between the second half of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century.

Typically Imari ware is decorated in underglaze blue, with red, gold, black for outlines, and sometimes other colours, added in overglaze.

The name derives from the port of Imari, Saga, from which they were shipped to Nagasaki.

“Imari” was simply the trans-shipment port for Arita wares, from where they went to the foreign trading outposts at Nagasaki.

It was the kilns at Arita which formed the heart of the Japanese porcelain industry. Arita’s kilns were set up in the 17th century, after kaolin was discovered in 1616.

A popular legend attributes the discovery to an immigrant Korean potter, Yi Sam-pyeong (1579–1655), although most historians consider this doubtful.

After the discovery, some kilns began to produce revised Korean-style blue and white porcelains, known as Early Imari, or “Shoki-Imari”.

In the mid-17th century there were also many Chinese refugees in northern Kyushu due to the turmoil in China, and it is said that one of them brought the overglaze enamel coloring technique to Arita.

Thus Shoki-Imari developed into Ko-Kutani, Imari, and later Kakiemon, which are sometimes taken as a wider group of Imari wares.

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Antique Japanese porcelain vase Imari, 19th century which aν an excellent piece.

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Code: C151

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