Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Kakiemon


Related Topics

In the News (Sun 6 Dec 09)

  
  Kakiemon Porcelain Plate, Edo Period, Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Kakiemon feared that his discovery would be stolen as well, so would only reveal the secret to his eldest son, sending his second and third sons into adoption to safeguard the secret.
Characteristic of Kakiemon ware is a pure white porcelain body, onto which are painted bright colors.
Kakiemon ware is still made by the 13th descendant of Sakaida Kakiemon.
seco.glendale.edu /~rkibler/kakiemonplate.html   (493 words)

  
  Kakiemon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kakiemon is sometimes used as a generic term describing wares made in the Arita factories using the characteristic Kakiemon overglaze enamels and decorative styles.
Sakaida Kakiemon XII and XIII attempeted to reproduce NIGOSHIDE and succeeded in 1953.
Kakiemon style was also adapted in Germany and Austria by the Du Paquier and "Vienna factories" and in France at Chantilly, Mennecy and Saint-Cloud.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kakiemon   (578 words)

  
 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Kakiemon
The Japanese potter Sakaida Kakiemon (1596-1666) is popularly credited with being the first in Japan to discover the secret of enamel decoration on porcelain, known as 'Akae'.
Kakiemon has become a generic term describing wares made in the Arita factories using the characteristic Kakiemon overglaze enamels and decorative styles.
However, shards from the Kakiemon kiln site at Nangawara show that blue and white and celadon wares were also produced.
www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Kakiemon   (490 words)

  
 kakiemon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about kakiemon
It is made at the Nangawara kiln in Arita by a line of potters established by Sakaida Kakiemon I (1599–1666).
Kakiemon ware has decorations in red, green, blue, and fl, usually birds or flowers, modelled on Chinese porcelain of the 17th century.
High-quality copies are now made by the 13th-generation Kakiemon, and lesser copies are made by industrial companies throughout the region.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /kakiemon   (147 words)

  
 Kakiemon - Zoekresultaten - MSN Encarta Winkler Prins Encyclopedie
Kakiemon - Zoekresultaten - MSN Encarta Winkler Prins Encyclopedie
Kakiemon, Japans porselein, genoemd naar de pottenbakker en schilder Sakaida Kakiemon (1596–1666), aanvankelijk met een verfijnd melkwit fond met...
De Wan Li rood-en-groen-emailstukken, in Japan samengevat onder de term aka-è, waren de voorlopers van het eerste Japanse emailporselein.
nl.encarta.msn.com /Kakiemon.html   (56 words)

  
 Japanese Ceramics
Kakiemon porcelain is produced in the Arita area.
Kakiemon I is considered to be the first to produce porcelain with enamel techniques and overglaze colors in Japan.
Typical colors for Kakiemon ware are red, light blue, yellow and bluelike green colors.
www.artelino.com /articles/japanese_ceramics.asp   (807 words)

  
 MIC FAENZA - JIKI PORCELAIN BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
The second group of porcelains is known as KAKIEMON, from the name of the special red glaze with an iron component that characterized the production and that has given the name to the family that produced it and that continues this production still today.
The Kakiemon porcelain was a less refined ceramics, made by the Japanese but commissioned by the Hollander merchants for the European market.
In 1650 the Kakiemon porcelains reached the excellence e of its style; the period between 1660 and 1730 represents the age of highest splendour for Arita.
www.racine.ra.it /micfaenza/programma/jiki/presentation.htm   (765 words)

  
 Pair of Japanese Kakiemon Imari Vases, Meiji
The front of each vase is finely hand painted in the traditional Kakiemon palette of iron red, blue, green, aubergine and gold enamels over a clear bright white glaze.
The thick foot ring surrounding the fuku mark is unglazed, the clay pure and smooth.
Kakiemon is considered to be one of the finest of Japanese porcelains.
www.bandcantiques.com /items/488623/item488623store.html   (291 words)

  
 Kakiemon Porcelain Plate, Edo Period, Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Kakiemon feared that his discovery would be stolen as well, so would only reveal the secret to his eldest son, sending his second and third sons into adoption to safeguard the secret.
Characteristic of Kakiemon ware is a pure white porcelain body, onto which are painted bright colors.
Kakiemon ware is still made by the 13th descendant of Sakaida Kakiemon.
www.glendale.edu /ceramics/kakiemonplate.html   (493 words)

  
 Buenos Aires Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Kakiemon wares were named after the celebrated potter Sakaida Kakiemon, who is considered the father of Japanese enamelling.
Later, the Kakiemon kiln became established in Nangawara at the south-west of Arita, the members of the group busy either as potters or as enamellers.
A Kakiemon 21.2 cm saucer dish of this type bears the classic brown edge around an exquisite asymmetrical enamel decoration with the “three friends” in the Chinese classics: the pine, the plum and the bamboo, plus two graceful birds, one perched, the other flying.
www.buenosairesherald.com /generic/note.jsp?idContent=4329   (869 words)

  
 Imari porcelain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Early experiments with overglaze colored enamels at Arita are associated with the famous Sakaida Kakiemon (1596-1666), whose name is memorialized in "Kakiemon" ware.
Chinese Imari patterns, as well as "Kakiemon" designs and palette of colors, influenced some early Orientalizing wares produced by the porcelain manufactories at Meissen, or later at Vincennes.
European centers imitated the gaudy and consciously "barbaric" taste of "Imari" wares, first copied in faience at Delft in Holland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imari_porcelain   (437 words)

  
 Introduction
Kakiemon however, despite its price, was the preferred style in the princely palaces of Northern Europe, and was the style most copied there in the second quarter of the 18th century.
Kakiemon was virtually never copied by the Chinese, while Chinese Imari is nearly as common as its Japanese original.
Kakiemon designs continued to be made throughout the 173Os, though many of the shapes and some of the designs were European or European adaptations of Oriental originals.
www.porcelainexhibition.com /Introduction.htm   (904 words)

  
 kakiemon search results | Information relating to kakiemon from sensiblesearch (US results displayed)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Chelsea and Worcester in England recreated Kakiemon shapes, patterns and colours with astonishing...
Quails are one of the commoner Kakiemon motifs.
Although Arita, Imari and Kakiemon wares were all made in the same kilns, the term Arita...
www.sensiblesearch.com /keywords/kakiemon.aspx   (459 words)

  
 Kakiemon-style Kiln
The Kakiemon-style Kiln, completed in October of 2000, is a wood-fired kiln that has the combined functions of a climbing kiln and a single kiln.
The kiln was designed by Sakaida Kakiemon XIV, professor in the Graduate School of Fine Arts, and a Living National Treasure.
Professor Sakaida generously allowed the design of the kiln, which had never before been removed from the residence of the Sakaida Kakiemon family, to be opened to the public – providing young artists with an opportunity to feel the depth of traditional crafts.
www.ip.kyusan-u.ac.jp /E/affiliated/others/kakiemon.html   (98 words)

  
 Japanese Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Kakiemon family gained particular renown for the quality of their color enamels and artistic designs.
These self-styled native informants, emerging from the colonial context, were at pains to cast their cultural heritage in a favorable light and thus were disinclined to mount a strong native defense of image veneration.
Together the essays demonstrate that, far from being a degenerate form of folk religion, the veneration of images was a central feature of Buddhist practice in Japan, irrespective of sectarian affiliation, social status, or clerical vocation.
www.sirreadalot.org /arts/japaneseartR.htm   (1749 words)

  
 Kakiemon Style Porcelain Elephant, Meiji Period
It wears a rectangular brocade saddle-cloth, tied around its ample belly with a tasseled red cinch, painted in the Kakiemon palette of iron-red, pale blue and yellow enamels with a peony amid “karakusa” scrolls.
Early Kakiemon figures were made exclusively for export, and such curiosities were highly appreciated in the West.
Similar Kakiemon-style porcelain elephant models were also copied in France in the 19th century by Samson, and such figures are as valuable as their Japanese counterparts when they show up from time to time in major European salesrooms.
www.bandcantiques.com /items/345361/item345361store.html   (246 words)

  
 Osaka Museum of History - Special Exhibition 'Japanese Artistry and Beauty'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Sakaida Kakiemon was recognized as a holder of the important intangible cultural property “Porcelain with polychrome overglaze enamels”; on July 12, 2001.
He endeavors to preserve and transmit the artistry of traditional Kakiemon porcelain (milky white background) and at the same time is enthusiastically engaged in the creative activity.
Following the traditional style of Kakiemon porcelain, he has studied the manufacturing method of the base material of porcelain of milky white background, the compounding of the paints and artistic expression.
www.mus-his.city.osaka.jp /english_iso-8859-1/special/2005/ArtistryAndBeauty/ArtistryAndBeauty_eng_p.html   (968 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Classic Japanese Porcelain: Imari and Kakiemon: Books: Takeshi Nagatake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This highly informative volume written by a leading authority describes the origin and development of the elegant Imari and Kakiemon porcelain wares which were in great demand in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Kakiemon tradition was started in around 1623 or 1624 by Sakaida Kizaemon, also known as Kakiemon I, and the family continues to produce porcelain today, headed by Kakiemon XIII.
Takeshi Nagatake (1916-1987) was born in Ushitsu, Saga Prefecture, the son of the head priest at Jofuku-ji temple.
www.amazon.com /Classic-Japanese-Porcelain-Imari-Kakiemon/dp/product-description/4770029527   (1384 words)

  
 Antique Week - News Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The dragon was revered in China as a symbol of happiness and fertility as early as the 7th century.
Kakiemon is a style of Japanese porcelain that was created in Arita by the Japanese ceramicist Salaida Kizaemon, known as Kakiemon I (1569-1666).
Kakiemon wares are characterized with simple naturalistic designs covering about two-thirds of an object.
www.antiqueweek.com /Article.asp?newsid=51   (1206 words)

  
 Viewing Japanese Prints: Koka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The drama was based on an adaptation of an English novel by Samuel Smile from 1864, titled "Self Help." The Japanese version tells the story of Kakiemon of Arita and his fifteen-year effort to create red-patterned, Chinese-style pottery in competition with an unscrupulous rival potter from Imari.
The tale ends with Kakiemon's ultimate success, but only after the tragic death of his elder daughter and that of his rival's son.
It is not clear which scene is depicted in Toyonari's print, but the sadness of Kakiemon is movingly evident.
spectacle.berkeley.edu /~fiorillo/texts/shinhangatexts/shinhanga_pages/koka3.html   (632 words)

  
 Antique Collecting Magazine - February 2006 Extract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Impey led the excavations in Japan that, far from pinning down what Kakiemon was, who made it and exactly where, gave us many more unknowns than we had before and much of what we 'knew' was patently wrong.
This article and the following one on European-influenced Kakiemon (to be published later in the year) concern themselves with the patterns that most would recognise as Kakiemon and gives a background to their development and the trade links from Japan to Europe.
The story goes that Sakaida Kakiemon learned of enamels from a Chinese potter in Nagasaki.This may be true, but there is no record of the man, and enamels had been in use, albeit on Kyoto wares, for some time.
www.antique-acc.com /antiquecollecting/Mar06MagExtract2.html   (378 words)

  
 DOCUMENTARY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Kakiemon is an exquisite example of Arita ware, a representative form of Japanese porcelain, that traveled the oceans to Europe in the 17
It is the first name assumed by the current head of the Sakaida Kakiemon dynasty, a line that has continued unbroken for more than 300 years.
Kakiemon porcelain is captivating throughout the ages, with a quality underpinned by the master's perpetual pursuit of excellence.
www.jamco.or.jp /english/library/documentary/dc27/dc270322.html   (253 words)

  
 Web results for Kakiemon - Search.com
For example, baroque gilt bronze mounts were added to this Kakiemon bowl that once belonged to the collection of August II the Strong, king of Poland and...
The Japanese potter Sakaida Kakiemon (1596-1666) is popularly credited with being the first…The name "Kakiemon" was bestowed by his overload on Sakaida,...
Kakiemon porcelain is treasured the world over and the technique itself,...
www.search.com /search?tag=se.fd.box.main.search&q=Kakiemon   (291 words)

  
 PORCELAIN Menu - EY Net Japanese Pottery Primer
Kakiemon porcelain is treasured the world over and the technique itself, nigoshi-te (milk-white porcelain) was designated as an Intangible Cultural Property in 1955.
The current heir is 14th-generation Sakaida Kakiemon XIV, who was named a Living National Treasure in 2001 for his overglazed enamel decorative porcelain.
Then, in 1659, the East India Company of Holland orders a huge number of Kakiemon's pieces for the nobility of Western Europe, and the style is thereafter referred to as Kakiemon porcelain.
www.e-yakimono.net /guide/html/porcelain.html   (1152 words)

  
 History of Stoneware and Porcelain
The porcelain ware of the Kakiemon style in which milky white porcelain ware called nigoshide is decorated with designs in delicate overglaze enamels leaving an ingenious milky white space can provide us with a feeling of typical Japanese beauty.
In the 17th century the overglaze enamel techniques of the Kakiemon style were born in Arita.
Although Kakiemon ware is regarded as a synonym for Japanese ceramics, they were the stars of porcelain ware exported to Europe, and both the nigoshide and bright colored ware were technical innovations made to promote their export overseas.
www.umakato.jp /english/ari05.html   (694 words)

  
 Meissen quatrefoil cup and saucer decorated with a kakiemon pattern ...
Meissen quatrefoil cup and saucer decorated with a kakiemon pattern...
Meissen quatrefoil cup and saucer decorated with a kakiemon pattern on a royal blue ground.
Painter's number 15 in orange to cup, 9 in orange to saucer.
www.antique-meissen.com /details2.asp?stockID=381   (47 words)

  
 AbeBooks: Search Results - Kakiemon
Imari and Kakiemon wares are produced in the Arita area of Kyushu, a focus of domestic porcelain production since the 17th century.
Kakiemon porcelain in the English houses as represented by the collections in Burghley House, Hampton Court, Drayton House, Sherborne Castle, Blenheim Palace, Arniston House, Welbeck Abbey, and Audley End.
Kakiemon, Nabeshima, Arita, Hirado and Fukagawa styles of Imari; Kutani; Satsuma; and known craftsmen's works are shown in profusion.
www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Kakiemon   (1866 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.