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Japanese Edo Seto Aburazara Oil Plate for Lantern browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese: Pre 1900: item # 769916 Please refer to our stock # 2A-800 when inquiring.
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This richly crackled glazed folk pottery stoneware oil plate (“abura-zara” or “andon-zara”) is sparsely decorated with sailboats in a landscape scene on a buff-colored clay ground. Late Edo period, early 19th century. The design was freely drawn and boldly executed in underglaze iron-oxide brown and ochre pigments using just a few simple brush strokes. The flat front side and the concave base are covered with clear glaze. An aburazara is a special flat plate with a perpendicular edge. It was used to catch oil drippings and soot from the burnt wick of an oil burning lamp called an andon. Due to changes in lighting technology, aburazara ceased to be made in the Meiji period. The fascination of aburazara for the collectors of Japanese folk art lies in their painted motifs. Their simple designs always possessed a spontaneous vitality, and the decoration on this plate is large in scale and freely executed. Considered a quintessential example of Japanese ceramic folk art, Seto aburazara are represented in most major collections of mingei or Japanese folk ceramics. (See “Andon Lantern Plates” by Yamazaki Masumi, the cover article in DARUMA 42 for many wonderful examples of these oil plates.) CONDITION is good. There are two old chips and a few tiny glaze frits on the rim, which are totally consistent with age and usage for this type of plate. Very few aburazara survive in perfect condition because they were seen as ordinary everyday utilitarian wares which would ultimately be discarded. DIMENSIONS: 7 ¾” (19.7 cm) diameter, 5/8” (1.7 cm) high. |
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