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Catalogue of the Morse collection of Japanese pottery (1901)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · Cambridge : The Riverside Press · leaf 461

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able to clear up covers the origin of this interesting pottery. Ninagawa identified certain of the pieces in the collection as Seto, Owari ; others supposed the pottery to be Kyoto. The pieces are refined in character, and reveal the work of a potter who loved the quiet and simple tastes of the… … dark brown and light gray on cover. Inside, transparent glaze. Tama (imp.). 1850 4I29- Incense-box (bird). L. 2-fg in. Coarse gray-drab clay, thick black Raku glaze. Tama (imp.). 1850 4130. Incense-burner, modeled in form of mythological lion. H. 7I in. Gray- drab clay, yellowish underglaze, light…

Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · Pottery, Japanese

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