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Ceramics > Satsuma ware

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Satsuma ware  

Definition

  • A variety of styles of ceramics for both everyday and tea ceremony use, made by Korean potters brought to Japan at kilns in Kagoshima prefecture (formerly the Satsuma domain) early 17th c. to the present; range from "sharkskin" ware with a grayish, light sepia or yellowish glaze and fine granular surface, to fine iron-glazed teawares; copies of Sawankhalok ware (a Thai ware decorated with underglazed iron-oxide painting); and overglazed enamels [AAT, alt.]

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  • 119186

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-QH6XFBP9-J

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