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I have this little bowl .I need some help Identification,I understand I can put a year and kiln to the bowl by the look of the spurs. Any good articles or books on this subject. Pictures would be nice
Thanks in advance
NW
Hello Norm,
Your bowl is Japanese. It has been stencil printed. It is a bit unusual in that the spurs used when firing the bowl have been placed on the inside of the bowl. Maybe to save space in the kiln. Think this type of production could be for the the use in food outlets, dumpling shops etc where they may not of been to concerned how the finished product look. This type of printing was first used in the 17thc but went out of use. It was reintroduced in the late 19thc into the 20th to facilitate mass production. Printed ware's are called inban. Stenciled printed as surie. It comes in two types positive and negative, fukizumi and katagami. With the negative method paper cut outs are placed on the object and glaze is sprayed around the paper. With the positive method a design is made on paper then holes made in the paper and the glaze is allowed to pass through the holes on to the pot. I think you bowl is of the positive type and made late 19th or earl 20thc.
Michael
Interested info Thanks Michael
Here some more info I came up with for anyone thats interested
Spur (kiln support) marks
Spur marks are the bits of clay or depressions left where the piece sat on kiln supports in the sagger when fired. Also 'kiln support marks'. The firing supports were used to support glazed wares in the kiln to prevent them from warping, sagging or sticking to whatever they would have sat on otherwise in the kiln during firing. These marks are found on the base surfaces, at or within the foot rims of dishes bowls, large jars etc.
As a mean of authentication it is worth noticing that antique kiln supports were as far as I know always made of clay and should therefore on close inspection leave a visible trace of clay in the "spur mark" like a broken off tooth, while modern supports used while copying antique glazes are often made of aluminum, and are therefore regular in their spacing and only leave a clean and empty impression in the glaze. To know the different kinds of fire supports that were used at different kilns at different times is very important for authentication and dating.
On Japanese porcelain, virtually every larger piece of export porcelain from the mid 18th century to the mid 19th century will be found to have one or several spur marks. Around the 1850's the number of spurs were reduced to mostly only one after which the practice was gradually phased out. The need arose from the Japanese working with a different clay more prune to warping than the Chinese, while trying to satisfy the export demand for thinner and more refined wares.
In China fire supports are common up until early Ming. On Chinese white-bodied stoneware or 'porcelain', fire supports are virtually non-existing after the Yuan dynasty except on wares deliberately copying older wares, and on rare monochromes whose glaze was runny. From the Yongzheng period Chinese porcelain copying Japanese porcelain (Deshima plates) are found also with spur marks. During the Qianlong period this feature was a deliberate occurrence even if the item wasn't actually fired on supports to simulate the archaic look, i.e. Song copies or those wares inspired by them.
During the first decades of the 20th century a larger proportion of the porcelain than before came to be of inventive and irregular shapes that again seems to have made firing supports - apparently small pebbles - quite commonplace.
Regarding older wares it is worth noticing that all 'spur marks' are fire supports, while all 'fire support marks' are not spur marks. During the Song and early Yuan dynasty in the Jingdezhen area the normal firing support used on upright standing white wares (Qingbai) was a small wad of clay that left a red burnt patch under the bases. At some occasions a circular wad was used and at other places a number of small wads, put around the edge of the base was used. This is a very large topic by itself but I will leave it at this.
It's a interesting looking plate. Unusual with the spur marks on the interior. I agree with Michael's comments. Though it could be early 19th century.
Perhaps if JRN logs in. He might be able to determine/comment more.
Mark
As Michael said, stencil printing was used early but went out of fashion. It didn't reappear until the Meiji period. Aside from that, I feel this blue is not that of the early 19th c: it is quite harsh and the overall design is typically messy which for me dates it to the other end of the 19th c onwards.
I suspect the internal spur marks, which are unusual, are an indication of mass-production ( relatively speaking) of these cheaper wares. As Michael says, it saves space and thus increases output. I can imagine that these bowls may have been produced up to the end of WW1 and I have a while back, I saw them dated even later but I am not sure about that. Personally, I think these are typically end 19th c maybe up till 1920.
Yes a ugly duck for sure .Heavy in weight and mass produced ...but intriguing
I have learnt alot from it
Thanks all
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