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On its base there appears a Dresden inventory mark, indicating that the piece came from the collection of the Elector Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, ‘Augustus the Strong’, who died in 1733. The areas of dark blue were achieved by painting with cobalt oxide under a clear glaze and firing to a high temperature in a reducing atmosphere - one in which the kiln is starved of oxygen so that the burning fuel draws chemically bonded oxygen from the reactive parts of the ceramic material, leaving them in a reduced state and changing their colour. The gold, red and other enamel colours were applied and fused on in subsequent, low-temperature firings. The distinctive so-called Imari-style colour scheme was much copied by 18th-century European manufacturers. The term Imari comes from the name of the port in western Japan through which this and other products of the nearby Arita kilns were shipped. Porcelains for export were sent to Nagasaki and then shipped abroad by Chinese and Dutch merchants, the Dutch, who were based on the island of Dejima, being the only Europeans permitted to conduct trade in Japan at this time.","physicalDescription":"Dish of porcelain, painted in red, underglaze blue and black. In the middle, a woman and two attendants with a dog in a garden. Border of pomegranates and flowers. Under the rim the same design of pomegranates. 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This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project.\nFormerly in the Royal Saxon Collection.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Dish, porcelain painted in underglaze blue, overglaze enamels and gilt, with a woman and her attendants in a garden; Japan, Arita kilns (Imari type), Edo period, 1690-1720","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Earle, J. ed. Japanese Art and Design. 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