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Seto|ˈsɛtɔː|
The name of a city 12 miles north-east of Nagoya in Japan used attrib. and absol. to designate the pottery and porcelain produced from the kilns established there in the 13th century.
1881Audsley & Bowes Keramic Art of Japan 125 The specimens..cost about four times as much as corresponding articles of Arita or Seto make. Ibid. 226 Other descriptions are called..Seto-Suke, Seko-Kuro, and..Ki-Seto, or yellow Seto after the colour of the glaze used. 1925W. Weston Wayfarer in Unfamiliar Japan xii. 127 The region whose chief and oldest settlement, Seto, gives its name to the Japanese term Seto-mono (lit. ‘Seto ware’), porcelain, just as we ourselves employ the word ‘china’ to connote articles of a similar nature. 1945W. B. Honey Ceramic Art of China & Other Countries of Far East v. 181 The ‘yellow Seto’ (ki-seto) was possibly suggested by a variety of the temmoku, but more probably by late Corean ware. 1959R. Kirkbride Tamiko ix. 67 The tea arrived in small porcelain cups which Ivan recognized as Seto, very old and rare, from the kiln at Nagoya. 1972P. Murray tr. Shoya Yoshida's Folk-Art (ed. 2) 52 (caption) Seto water dropper with peony relief. |