Eisei Bunko Museum

Early Spring Exhibition 2024

Colors in Chinese Ceramics:

Saturday, January 13 –Sunday, April 14, 2024

Two-thousand-year history of ceramic colors*All the displayed objects belong to the Eisei Bunko Collection.
* Please note that exhibits are subject to change without notice.

List of Works№ Designation／TermTitle

Production place/ArtistPeriod

Gray Earthenware―Gray Pottery
1Jar
Gray pottery

Han dynasty, 2nd century BC-1st century BC

2Chinese Chess Board for Three Players
Gray pottery

Han dynasty, 2nd century BC-2nd century AC

3 Important Art Object

HorsePainted gray pottery

Northern dynasty, 6th century

Multicolored Ceramics 1―Tang Sancai
4567 Important Art Object

Tripod Dishwith auspicious flower design
Three-color glazed pottery
Dishwith flower design
Three-color glazed pottery
Quadripod Dish
Quatrefoil-shaped with flower design
Three-color glazed pottery
Chinese Lion
Three-color glazed pottery

Tang dynasty, 8th century

Tang dynasty, 8th century

Tang dynasty, 8th century
Tang dynasty, 8th century

HorseThree-color glazed pottery

8910

Important Cultural
Property

11

Important Cultural
Property

12 Important Art Object

Tang dynasty, 7-8th century

HorseThree-color glazed pottery
Tripod Dishwith auspicious flower design
Three-color glazed pottery
Dishwith flower petal design
Three-color glazed pottery
Female Figure
Three-color glazed pottery

Tang dynasty, 7-8th century
Tang dynasty, 7-8th century

Tang dynasty, 7-8th century
Tang dynasty, 8th century

Green Ceramics―Green Glazed Porcelain
Incense Burnerwith a lion knob on the lid
Green glazed porcelain
Bowl
Green glazed porcelain

1314

Ming dynasty, 17th century
Qing dynasty, 17-18th century

Black and White Ceramics 1―Cizhou Ware and White Porcelain15

Important CulturalProperty

161718

Vasewith sgraffito design of peonies
White glazed pottery
Ewer
Gourd-shaped with underglaze iron stripes
White glazed pottery
Vasewith long neck
White porcelain
FluteWhite porcelain

Cizhou Ware

Northern Song dynasty, 11-12th century

Cizhou WareJin dynasty, 12-13th century

Ding Ware

Northern Song dynasty, 11-12th century

Dehua Ware

Ming-Qing dynasty, 17th century

Hosokawa Moritatsu and Chinese Ceramics
19

Record of Moritatsu's Five Hundred and Twenty Days'
Journey around Europe

20

Illustrated Catalogue of Three-color Glazed PotteryPublished by IwanamiShoten 1928

21

THE CHINESE EXHIBITION: A Commemorative
Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese
Art, Royal Academy of Arts, November 1935-March1936

Published by Faber andFaber

1936

Jizhou WareSouthern Song dynasty, 12-13th century

early Showa period, 20th century

Black and White Ceramics 2―Black glazed Pottery
22

Tea Bowl
Konoha (leaf) tenmoku type23

Tea Bowl
Yellow tenmoku typeYuan-Ming dynasty, 14-15th century

24

Tea Bowl
with silvery spots (Yuteki tenmoku type)Jin dynasty, 12-13th century

25

Tea Bowl

Tenmoku type with "hare's fur" glaze
Blue Ceramics 1―Celadon and Bluish Opaque Glazed Pottery

Jian WareSouthern Song dynasty, 12-13th century

26 Important Art Object

DishBluish opaque glaze with reddish-purple splashes

Jun WareJin dynasty, 12-13th century

27

Bowl
Celadon glazed porcelainLongquan Ware

Ming dynasty, 15th century

28BowlCeladon glazed porcelainLongquan Ware

Ming dynasty, 15th century

№ Designation／TermTitle

Production place/Artist

PeriodJingdezhen Ware

Ming dynasty, 17th century

Jingdezhen Ware

Ming dynasty, 17th century

Jingdezhen WareMing dynasty, 17th century

Blue Ceramics 2―Underglaze Blue29303132333435Jar
Melon-shaped with flowers and birds design inunderglaze blue
Inkstone Screenwith dragon and cloud design in underglaze blue
Hexagonal Tassewith phoenix design in underglaze blue
Incense Container
Giboshi (sacred jewel)-shaped with design inunderglaze blue
Water Jar
Round-shaped with flower design in underglaze blue

Qing dynasty, 17-18th century
Jingdezhen Ware

Guanyi tsun (Avalokitesvara shape) Vase
Jingdezhen Warewith plum tree design in underglaze blue
Brushwith porcelain handle with cloud and dragon design inunderglaze blue

Ming dynasty, 17th century
Qing dynasty, 17-18th century
Ming dynasty, 16-17th century

Colorful Ceramics 2―Overglaze Enamels and Peach-blossom Red Glazed Porcelain
36373839 Important Art Object
40
41 Important Art Object
42 Important Art Object

Brushwith porcelain handle with cloud and dragon design inoverglaze enamels
Vase
Jingdezhen Ware
Gourd-shaped with arabesque in overglaze enamels
Dishwith dragon and peony design in overglaze enamels
Ewerwith peony and peacock design in overglaze enamels
and goldDishwith flower and insect design in overglaze enamels
Conjoined Vase with coverwith design of Western figures in colored enamels(falangcai enamels)
Flower Pots
with female immortals design in overglaze enamels

43

Records of Seishokai (Monthly Study Session on Art)

44 Important Art Object

Lidded Containers
Peach-blossom red glazed porcelain

4546

Lidded Stem Cup
Glazed with gold enamel
Hossu (Zen priest's fly whisk)with porcelain handle with dragon design in overglaze
enamels

Ming dynasty, 16-17th century
Ming dynasty, 17th century

Zhangzhou ware

Ming dynasty, 17th centuryJingdezhen Ware

Ming dynasty, 16th century

Jingdezhen Ware

Ming dynasty, Tianqi era (1621-27)

Jingdezhen Ware

Qing dynasty, Qian-long era (1736-95)

Jingdezhen Ware

Qing dynasty, 17-18th century
March 2, 1926`

Jingdezhen Ware

Qing dynasty, Kang-xi era (1662-1722)

Jingdezhen Ware

Qing dynasty, 18-19th century
Ming dynasty, Wan-li era (1573-1620)

Reception of Chinese Ceramic Art in Modern Japan
47

Chinese Lady

Umehara Ryuzaburo

1950

48

Letter to Hosokawa Moritatsu

Umehara Ryuzaburo

Dated September 21, 1949

49

RosesUmehara Ryuzaburo

1940

Female Figure
Painted pottery
Sake Cupwith silvery spots (Yuteki Tenmoku type) and whiterim
Incense Burner
in Jun ware style with lion-shaped ears

Koyama Fujio

53

Bowl
with reddish-purple splash

Kawai Kanjiro

54

Flower Vasein Jun ware style with tsurukubi (long neck)

Uno Soyo Ⅰ

55

Tea Bowl
Taihi (tortoiseshell) tenmoku type

Uno Soyo Ⅰ

56

Tea Bowl
Overglazed in Jian ware style

Uno Soyo Ⅰ

50 Important Art Object
51
52

Tang dynasty, 7-8th century

Kusube Yaichi

1966