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Imari ware bowl, stormy seascape design in overglaze enamel, Edo period, 17th–18th century. Imari ware (Japanese: 伊万里焼, Hepburn: Imari-yaki) is a Western term for a brightly-coloured style of Arita ware (有田焼, Arita-yaki) Japanese export porcelain made in the area of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, northwestern KyÅ«shÅ«.
It is known mainly for its sometsuke underglaze cobalt blue and white porcelain, with the amount of blue often low, showing off the detailed modelling and the very fine white colour of the porcelain. This has a finer grain than most Japanese porcelains, allowing fine detail and thin and complicated openwork in forms.
In addition to the colored painting known as "Iro-Nabeshima," occasionally "blue-and-white" designs using cobalt blue, celadon or a rusty glaze are known to exist. The most common "Iro-Nabeshima" is a technique in which a design is painted over a vessel with a blue-and-white design, and then the vessel is fired again with a low-temperature ...
The Japanese were early admirers of Chinese blue and white and, despite the difficulties of obtaining cobalt (from Iran via China), soon produced their own blue and white wares, usually in Japanese porcelain, which began to be produced around 1600. As a group, these are called sometsuke (染付).
Most are thick porcelain table ware with blue cobalt paintings. Tokoname ware: 常滑焼: Tokoname, Aichi: Most are flower vases, rice bowls, or teacups. Tsuboya ware: 壺屋焼: Tsuboya, Naha: A form of Ryukyuan pottery. Most are thick porcelain table ware with blue cobalt paintings. Zeze ware: 膳所焼: Ōtsu, former Zeze domain
Typical Hasami ware uses underglaze cobalt blue and celadon, but at first they produced stonewares. Later the materials for porcelain were found, so gradually Hasami ware shifted from pottery to porcelain. In the late Edo period, Hasami was the number one producer of blue-and-white porcelain in Japan, and bottles and other products were exported.
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