Artworks

Saké bottle with crackled celadon glaze

Artwork · Anonymous · first half of the 19th century · bottle · The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Porcelain, by now standard enough to be used for ceramics once made in stoneware: a crackled celadon glaze in imitation of a Chinese stoneware prototype, the product of a double firing — a luminous jade-like quality and a network of crazing. Typical of the Nabeshima or Hirado kilns. 1 Mason 2005, p. 297, fig. 340. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.