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Title
  • Panel ‘Mt. Fuji’, signed ‘Kawamoto Masukichi’
Collection
Production
Period | Style | School
Material | Technique
  • Porzellan mit Bemalung in Kobaltblau unter transparenter Glasur
Measurements
  • height: 62.3 cm
  • width: 94 cm
Inventory number
  • KE 2071
Acquisition
  • donation, 1873
Department
  • Asia Collection
Inscriptions
  • signature (back side) : Nihon Seto Kawamoto Masukichi
Description
    From the 1850s, Kawamoto Masukichi was a leading artist in the factories in Seto, producing export ceramics, first for America and later for Europe. His bravura pieces were created on official commission from the Japanese government for major exhibitions in- and outside Japan. The “Fuji Plate”, made for the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair, was the first of these prestigious objects, and, in comparison with those made later, it is also the smallest. Its particularly striking feature is the style of painting; Masukichi combines a Western rendering of three-dimensionality and perspective with Hokusai’s pictorial tradition. (Wieninger, Johannes)
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  • porcelain painting, Panel ‘Mt. Fuji’, signed ‘Kawamoto Masukichi’, Kawamoto Masukichi I. 初代川本桝吉, MAK Inv.nr. KE 2071
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Last update
  • 06.12.2024


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