Page 508 - Catalogue of the Edward Morse collection of Japanese pottery MFA BOSTON

THE CATALOGUE
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PROVINCE OF ETCHU

This province, on the western coast just north of, and contiguous to,
Kao-a, has Httle to show in the way of pottery. In the village of Uyefu an
oven was built in 1820. The clay was poor and the pottery was bad. Nina-
gawa records a tea-jar said to have been made in Etchu in 1701. In the
village of Seto a rough brown glazed pottery was made by a potter from
Seto, Owari. It has no mark nor merit.

SETO

4546*. Dish, crenulated rim. D. 7iin. Buff clay, deepest brown Seto glaze mottled. 1878

PROVINCE OF UZEN

The only specimen, in the collection, representing this province is a
bowl made to commemorate the opening of a famous tunnel near Yamagata.

YAMAGATA

4547*' Shallow bowl. D. 4f in. Light brown clay, light gray glaze,
brush-mark of white inside and out. Characters written in brown.
Yamagata ken (imp.). 1870
4547

PROVINCE OF ECHIGO

Within fifty years a pottery has been made in the town of Shibata.
The two specimens in the collection are tea-pots, hand-made after Banko

style.
SHIBATA

4548*. Tea-pot. D. 2^ in. Moulded by hand. Fine light reddish clay unglazed.
Handle in form of fungus. Tea-service, flowers, fruit, and poem incised. Fret im-
pressed around rim. Hoshina and Beikoku (imp.). 1840
4549*- Tea-pot, similar to last, with poem only incised on side.
Hoshina and Beikoku (imp.). 1840