Satsuma ware

(Japan)

HODOTA Takichi

(Japan)

MASANOBU

(Japan)

Title

Cricket cage

Other titles:

Japanese basketware

Place of origin

Japan

Period

Meiji period 1868 - 1912 → Japan

Year

circa 1900

Media category

Ceramic

Materials used

enamelled porcelain

Dimensions

17.8 x 11.0cm overall:

a - cage; 17.8 x 11cm

b - lid; 2.4 x 6.9cm

Signature & date

Signed base, in Japanese, gilding [inscribed] " ... Dainihon Satsuma-yaki Hodota seizô Masanobu [Satsuma ware from Japan, made by Masanobu of Hodota]" [and artist's seal]. Not dated.

Credit

Gift of Charles Binnie 1939

Accession number

4076.a-b

Location

Upper Asian gallery

Further information

This fine example of Satsuma ware was produced in Yokohama by a company begun by Hodota Takichi, formerly a tea merchant. The piece is signed 'Masanobu', possibly the decorator. With the Meiji Satsuma ware, the base was often made in Kagoshima, the traditional Satsuma ware region, and sent to various areas to be decorated. Some pieces found their way to the domestic market, but most were made for export.

The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.267.

Bibliography (3)

Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 'Ceramics', Domain, 2003, 267 (colour illus.).

Jackie Menzies, Antiques in New South Wales Apr 1987-Aug 1987, 'A Japanese Miscellany', pg. 7, Sydney, Apr 1987-Aug 1987, 7 (illus.).

Public Programmes Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales and The Japan Foundation (Editors), Art speaks Japanese: Japanese language education kit from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales 2007, Sydney, 2007, (colour illus.). card no. 13