A potter and his wheel, fashioning a vase of Awata porcelain - in the famous Kinkosanworks, Kyoto Japan.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.37
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting two potters painting pottery objects. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: Printed in black in on the right lower margin: (67) - A potter and his wheel, fashioning a vase of Awata porcelain - in the famous Kinkosanworks, Kyoto Japan. Copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood. In the left and margin, printed in italic print in black ink: "Underwood and Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto - Canada, Ottawa - Kansas. In the right hand margin, printed in italic print in black ink: "Works and Studios Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J Verso is a description of the pottery works and the wares they produced for the European and American markets. Also describes how the wheel operates and the potters tools. Describes how the work is specalised with one man undertaking the same task all day. Below that printed in black ink in English French German Italian Swedish Spanish and Russian: A Potter and His Wheel, Kinkosan Porcelain Works, Kyoto, Japan.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, photographer and publisher