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Arita|əˈriːtə|
The name of a town on the island of Kyushu, south-west of Japan, used attrib. to designate a variety of porcelain made in the neighbourhood since the early seventeenth century, or an object made of this porcelain, usually characterized by an asymmetric style of decoration, commonly either cobalt blue and white underglaze or polychrome enamel.
[1876W. E. Griffis Mikado's Empire 616 Of the two platforms in the Japanese section, one was devoted to porcelain of Arita and Karatsŭ, in Hizen.] 1878[see Imari]. 1880A. W. Franks Jap. Pott. 90 (heading) Arita ware. 1881C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork iii. 233 An Arita bowl, gorgeous with stippled red, at $5. 1925tr. Hannover's Pott. & Porc. II. iii. ii. 210 This early Arita porcelain also seems to have been blue-and-white. 1954H. Garner Oriental Blue & White xi. 62 The square bottle and the ewer have border designs which are typical of the Arita wares, both blue and white and polychrome. 1965S. Jenyns Jap. Porcelain iii. 89 The decoration of the earliest blue and white Arita pieces is primitive; the most common decoration is a sketchy foliage scroll. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 610 By c 1650 the Dutch were already trading in Arita blue-and-white. |