. The color blue in pottery and porcelain. h tradewith the Orient. Not only as Nagasaki and Imari, butalso as Arita, Korantia, Hirado, and Nabeshima arethe porcelains of Hizen classified. Arita is the name ofthe town where clays have been found and used for manu-facture of porcelain for centuries; Korantia the name of alarge manufactory of porcelain in the town of Arita;Hirado and Nabeshima the names given to wares pro- 1201 duced for two Princes who were early patrons of the these half dozen names one may begin analytical studyof the blue and white porcelains of Japan, from the stand
. The color blue in pottery and porcelain. h tradewith the Orient. Not only as Nagasaki and Imari, butalso as Arita, Korantia, Hirado, and Nabeshima arethe porcelains of Hizen classified. Arita is the name ofthe town where clays have been found and used for manu-facture of porcelain for centuries; Korantia the name of alarge manufactory of porcelain in the town of Arita;Hirado and Nabeshima the names given to wares pro- 1201 duced for two Princes who were early patrons of the these half dozen names one may begin analytical studyof the blue and white porcelains of Japan, from the standpointof the student, who is dependent even in Japan upon the re-search of others for facts relating to the beginnings of artthere, and in our libraries and museums we may acquaintourselves with all that is really known, comparing wares andsubstantiating conclusions by the study of specimens, if nobetter means are procurable. History tells us that porcelain was first made in Japan bya man who went to China to study the art in the sixteenth. Plate to left ot cut, of old Hizen ware. Middle plate of Owari. Dish to right, inodern Arita porcelain. Cup of Imari with bamboo and pine decoration. Cup to the right ot Japanese crackle w^are. century. He settled in the Province of Hizen and decoratedhis wares with blue. Since that time a great many factorieshave arisen, so that commercial wares have proceeded fromthat province made after the style introduced from the Dutch alone were allowed entrance to Japan throughthe two silent centuries so-called, while the port was closedto the outside world (from the middle of the 17th to themiddle of the 19th centuries), and as their trading post was inthe harbor of Nagaski, on a small island, Decima by name,the Hizen wares made for export during that period borevarying names as has been stated, but the one word Hizencovers all the others, and in Europe we hear collectors speakof their Old Hizen oftener than we do here. Within thewide limits
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