Rectangle Plate, Chrysanthemum

Ceramics

Craft Company: Shingama Kiln

ORIGIN: Seto, Aichi Prefecture
SIZE: W100 × H342 × D50mm
MATERIAL: Porcelain stone

Flowering in beauty

Seto Sometsuke (Blue and white porcelain) was first created in the early 19th century. It has long been popular as Seto’s unique technique of capturing and depicting the nature of Seto, Aichi Prefecture.

This work is a long rectangular plate made by “SHINGAMA,” a Seto pottery kiln established in 1919. A single chrysanthemum blooming on a pure white porcelain canvas is beautiful. The stunning shades of a cobalt blue gosu glaze painted on unglazed porcelain simultaneously suggests both the solid presence of the design and the refinement of sometsuke porcelain. It is truly a gem to be savored and appreciated for its brush strokes made by the hands of Seto artisans.

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Sometsuke (Blue and white porcelain)
- Technique
Decorating on biscuit under transparent glaze with a blue pigment. This pigment is known as zaffer or “gosu” in Japanese. It was first used in China in the 14th century and then spread around the world. In Japan, it was first introduced in Arita at the beginning of 17th century. The decoration methods can be broadly divided into two ways with each method using different brushes. One is drawing just the outline and the other is painting inside the outline which is called “dami” in Japanese. There are also other techniques such as “fukizumi” which creates pattern by spraying gosu on the surface resulting in a charming contrast of blue and white.
Seto ware
- Generic term
Generic name of ceramics produced mainly in Seto City, Aichi Prefecture. In the past, it was very popular especially in the eastern parts of Japan so much so that all porcelain was generally referred to as “Setomono”. One of the six ancient kilns of Japan.

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