What is Japanese Satsuma?

What is Japanese Satsuma?

Satsuma ware is a type of earthenware pottery originating from the Satsuma province in southern Kyushu, Japan’s third largest island. There are two distinct types of Satsuma ware. The original Ko-Satsuma is characterised by a heavy dark glaze, often plain, but occasionally with an inscribed or relief pattern.

What are the four classifications of Japanese pottery?

Generally, Japanese ceramic wares can be largely divided into four categories: earthenware, stoneware, “pottery,” and porcelain. Earthenware (doki): Usually fired at 700 to 800°C (1292-1472°F).

Are Satsuma vases valuable?

Satsuma Pottery in the Market Today While the Japanese Satsuma vase is one of the most popular objects in the field, any work from this period tends to be quite valuable today.

How can I tell if my Satsuma vase is real?

Key to Authenticating Is Lack of English Marks Genuine Satsuma is native to Japan and never anywhere else including China. Genuine Satsuma never has English writing on it; no “Made in…,” no “Hand-Painted,” no “Genuine…,” and no “Satsuma” anything. Satsuma vase, circa 1820.

How do I know if my Satsuma is real?

Satsuma usually has the artist’s signature along with the Satsuma mark. Whatever the Satsuma mark used, many Satsuma pieces include the Shimazu clan mark, a red, hand-painted circle with a cross inside (like the crosshairs in a gunsight).

Is Satsuma pottery worth anything?

What is Shino pottery?

Shino ware (志野焼, Shino-yaki) is Japanese pottery, usually stoneware, originally from Mino Province, in present-day Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It emerged in the 16th century, but the use of shino glaze is now widespread, both in Japan and abroad.

What is special about Japanese pottery?

Each of the 47 prefectures in Japan produces its own ceramic ware with unique aesthetics. Japanese ceramics refer to pottery crafts made of clay, as well as kaolinite-made porcelain wares, which appear whiter and finer with higher degrees of density and hardness.

Is Satsuma Chinese or Japanese?

Genuine Satsuma is native to Japan and never anywhere else including China.