Author : Sensaku Nakagawa
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015016851936
Kutani Ware by Sensaku Nakagawa Pdf
This translation of Kutani ware, by the late Nakagawa Sensaku, will introduce an area of Japanese ceramics that is at once unknown and altogether too familiar to Western connoisseurs and students of Japanese culture. The gilt-and-polychrome export porcelains produced at the Kutani kilns in the late nineteenth century, to which Dr. Nakagawa refers to the conclusion of his text, are probably collecting dust on the back shelves of most American and European museum storerooms and in attic chests containing the souvenirs of a great-aunt's grand tour of the Orient. The benefactor of the Fogg Art Museum, Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg, for example, seeded the new museum's collection with a donation of her own Kutani mementoes, including a number of bowls with the familiar "hundred ancients" motif.--pg. 11.
