The Early Porcelain Kilns of Japan: Arita in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

by Oliver Impey

This is the first book in English to document what Japanese porcelain was like before it was "discovered" in Europe, and thereafter made with a view to foreign, rather than Japanese, tastes. It is also the first in-depth study of the working practices of the pottery kilns of the seventeenth century. Impey assesses the individual kilns at Arita and reconstructs a detailed and fascinating picture of how these beautiful, little-known objects were made...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198263708
• ISBN13: 9780198263708
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.0" x 11.2"