Page 491 - Catalogue of the Edward Morse collection of Japanese pottery MFA BOSTON

PROVINCE OF SATSUMA
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44^3' Clove-boiler. H. 7I in. Mishima, white on gray. 1830
4404. Tea-bowl. D. 5J in. Thick and heavy. Light fawn clay ; firm, nearly white glaze.
Stars, vertical lines, etc., in black. ly^o
Rare form.
44°5' Bottle, gourd-shaped. H. loj in. Thick and heavy. Fawn clay, nearly white
glaze. Bands of stars, flowers, scrolls, vertical lines, etc., black Mishima. 1750
4406. Wine-bottle, gourd-shaped. H. 6\ in. Thick and heavy. Light gray fawn clay,
white glaze. Cross-lines, stars, etc., in black. 1780
4407' Jar. H. loj in. Light fawn clay, thick white glaze minutely crackled. Encir-
cling lines with stars, flowers, herring-bone, etc., vertical lines in threes incised and impressed
in brownish-gray Mishima. 1800
On top of Case 38.
44°S- Clove-boiler. H. ioJ in. Yellowish-white clay, grayish-white glaze. Bands of
stars, cross-lines, vertical lines, etc., in black. 1800
4410. Deep bowl. H. 3^ in. Light fawn clay, nearly white glaze. Band of basket-work
near rim, and vertical interrupted lines on side in light blue Mishima. 1840

SAME (Case 37 and Plate XXVII. 4412)
A form of pottery known as Sam6, or Shark-skin, is at once recognized by its gray
clay and minutely granulated glaze resembling shark-skin. Similar effects of glaze
have been produced elsewhere in Japan, notably in Shino, Owari, where the glaze is
curdled in large drops close together ; in Iwaki, where the drops are large, isolated,
and running ; in Hizen, where the glaze is thick and deeply crackled ; and in Tamba,
where a resemblance is seen to Satsuma.
44^^- Bowl, sides indented. D. 4f in. Hard gray-drab clay, coarsely granulated fawn
glaze ; rich brown glaze inside. 1800
44^2' Bottle, gourd-shaped. H. 3! in. Gray-drab clay, coarsely granu-
lated gray-drab glaze. Inside neck, brown glaze. 1830
4414. Flower-vase. H. 8^ in. Recent
4415' Tea-cup. D. 2% in. Recent
4416*. Flower-vase, signed, Satsuma no Kuni Keiden set (imp.). 1888
SEIKOZAN (Case 37)

A long slender bottle-shaped vase, with shark-skin glaze, bears the impressed
mark Seikozan. It may have been made by a descendant or an apprentice of Gioku
Kozan.
44^7- Vase, bottle-shaped. H. 8| in. Gray-drab clay, olive-drab glaze, granu-
lated with running splashes of olive-brown overglaze. Beautifully modeled.
Seikozan (imp.). 1830
4418. Jar. H. 6| in. Similar to last. 1830 ''''^