GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Named for a former Japanese province and porcelain production center, Hizen was the most overtly Japonesque of Gorham Manufacturing Company's flatware patterns. The dragon on the handle and the carp on the bowl of this berry spoon are motifs derived from Japanese fine and decorative arts increasingly imported to the United States following the 1854 Convention of Kanagawa, which established trade between Japan and the West. Its textured and polychrome surface, achieved through hammering and parcel-gilding, imitates Japanese mixed metalwork.
Adapted from
Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 172-176, 338.
NOTES
I edited the title to italicize Hizen and remove "pattern."
I removed techniques ("cast") from the Medium display field in TMS and added it as Getty Vocabulary term.
I added the following as a TMS Text Entry: Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 338.
I updated Provenance, Exhibition History, and Published References in TMS.
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Until 1992: The V. Stephen Vaughan Collection, Chelsea, Massachusetts
From 1992: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from the above
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General Description
Named for a former Japanese province and porcelain production center, Hizen was the most overtly Japonesque of Gorham Manufacturing Company's flatware patterns. The dragon on the handle and the carp on the bowl of this berry spoon are motifs derived from Japanese fine and decorative arts increasingly imported to the United States following the 1854 Convention of Kanagawa, which established trade between Japan and the West. Its textured and polychrome surface, achieved through hammering and parcel-gilding, imitates Japanese mixed metalwork.
Adapted from
Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 172-176, 338.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
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Notes
I edited the title to italicize Hizen and remove "pattern."
I removed techniques ("cast") from the Medium display field in TMS and added it as Getty Vocabulary term.
I added the following as a TMS Text Entry: Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 338.
I updated Provenance, Exhibition History, and Published References in TMS.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 1992: The V. Stephen Vaughan Collection, Chelsea, Massachusetts
From 1992: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from the above
AUDIO ASSETS
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CONTEXTUAL
rules
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