AH 0102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Qingbai Ware, Ding Ware, White Ware
12 May 2018
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Notes for Day 20: April 17, 208
Porcelain: Blue and White Ware in a Global Context
Announcements:
• Extension of Journal 9 and change to Journal 10 (on any remaining questions on
porcelain and ceramics, due on Friday)
• Presentation schedule posted: put your presentation on google drive and post it on the
folder in blackboard
• Questions about toriawase?
Presentations:
• 4 minutes (2 pages double spaced)
• images of objects
• describe your gathering, and why you chose those objects
• evaluation:
o content (50): informs the audience about the season, setting, and guests of the
gathering; articulates the organizing aesthetic principle of this toriawase; presents
sufficient and relevant information about each object, and objects’ relationships
o deliver (25): speaks in a clear voice at an appropriate speed; practice, engages the
audience
o slides and visual aides (25)
Strategies for a successful slide presentation:
• clear and large images
• not too much text
• put some thought into your design
• practice
Lacquer ware:
• Example: Writing Box with “Dream in Naniwa” Design
• Japanese, Edo Period, 18th century
• Lacquered wood with gold, silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, and silver inlay
• Talk about gold decoration
• How to go from wooden box to lacquer: layering of paint and gold particles
• Splattering or sprinkling gold with fine brushes because lacquer acts as a glue (very fine
sprinkles of gold, can be done with a mesh, size of gold can vary); gold can be polished
to the point where it feels like a smooth inlay; it’s not painted its sprinkles; there can also
be layering effects of gold
• The silver is inlaid the box; it protrudes into the box
• The image you want to put on a lacquer box is traced onto paper and lacquer is placed on
it while gold and silver is sprinkled all over it; this collectively hardens with the lacquer
in a humid cabinet
• Flat sprinkled design; raised sprinkle design (3D); polished out sprinkled design
(polished to allow the design to reappear)
• The box in the next example in Fairfield university is mainly black in color, sprinkled
with gold to make it look brown, has a shiny black lid that is decorated with a raised
sprinkle design that makes the image look 3D (the image is cranes)
• The inside of the lid contains flowers and leaves which surround an autumn theme
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