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Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ford, Barbara Brennan, and Oliver R. Impey

1989

144 pages

108 illustrations

8.5 x 11 in

This title is out of print.

Table of contents

About the authors

Director's Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Japanese Art
Map of Major Kiln Sites

Religious Art of the Heian Period
Barbara Brennan Ford

Gentlemanly Accomplishments: The Adaptation of Chinese Literati

Culture
Barbara Brennan Ford

Aesthetic Traditions of Japanese Pottery
Barbara Brennan Ford

Japanese Export Porcelain
Oliver R. Impey

Appendix A: The Early Appreciation of Japanese Art in Europe
Oliver R. Impey

Appendix B: Japanese Porcelain in Seventeenth-Century European

Inventories
Linda Rosenfeld Shulsky

Selected Bibliography
Index

Met Art in Publication

Great Wisdom Sutra (Daihannya-kyō), one of the Chūsonji Sutras (Chūsonji-kyō), Handscroll; gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper, Japan — Great Wisdom Sutra (Daihannya-kyō), one of the Chūsonji Sutras (Chūsonji-kyō)
Japan
ca. 1175

Shō Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Wood with traces of gold and color, Japan — Shō Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
Japan
12th century

Deep Vessel with Handles

, Earthenware with cord-marked and sculpted decoration (Otamadai type), Japan — Deep Vessel with Handles
Japan

Deep Vessel with Handles

, Earthenware with cord-marked and incised decoration, Japan — Deep Vessel with Handles
Japan

Vessel, Earthenware with incised decoration (Kamegaoka type), Japan — Vessel
Japan
ca. 500 BCE

Jar, Earthenware, Japan — Jar
Japan
ca. 100–300

Flask, Sue ware; stoneware with natural ash glaze, Japan — Flask
Japan

Jar, Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Sue ware), Japan — Jar
Japan
ca.9th century

Jar, Stoneware with natural ash glaze, Japan — Jar
Japan
9th century

Jar for Sutra Burial (Sankinko)
, Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Tokoname ware), Japan — Jar for Sutra Burial (Sankinko)
Japan
early 12th century

Jar in Meiping Shape with Incised Floral Design, Stoneware with brown iron glaze (Ko-Seto ware), Japan — Jar in Meiping Shape with Incised Floral Design
Japan
14th century

Flower Vase with Stamped Design of Lotus, Earthenware with brown iron glaze and accidental blue streaks (Ko Seto ware), Japan — Flower Vase with Stamped Design of Lotus
Japan
14th century

Storage jar, Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Shigaraki ware), Japan — Storage jar
Japan
14th–15th century

Jar, Tanba ware; stoneware with natural ash glaze, Japan — Jar
Japan
ca. 1400

Storage jar, Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Tanba ware), Japan — Storage jar
Japan
ca. 1500

Storage jar, Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Bizen ware), Japan — Storage jar
Japan
ca. 1500

Jar, Stoneware with painted decoration in underglaze brown iron (Karatsu ware), Japan — Jar
Japan

Teabowl, Hon'ami Kōetsu Japanese, Earthenware with lead glaze (Raku ware), Japan — Teabowl
Hon'ami Kōetsu
ca. 17th century

Bowl with Heron in Reeds, Stoneware with underglaze iron brown (Mino ware, Shino type), Japan — Bowl with Heron in Reeds
Japan
late 16th century

Food Cup (Mukōzuke), Stoneware with underglaze iron brown (Hizen ware, Karatsu type), Japan — Food Cup (Mukōzuke)
Japan
ca. 1590–1610

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Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1989. Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Exhibition Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 15, 1989 - July 29, 1990. Edited by Barbara Brennan Ford and O. R. Impey. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art.