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Jasperware
The formula for Jasper, a dense white stoneware, was Josiah Wedgwood’s most closely guarded secret. For the chemically-inclined, we know that it contains one part calcined flint, three parts purbeck clay, one quarter part fired and washed alabaster, and six parts sulfate of barium, all fired at about 1200-1250 degrees centigrade. When thinly potted and fired at slightly higher temperatures, Jasper becomes translucent and rings like porcelain.
“Invented” by Wedgwood after many [...] Click here to continue reading.
Japanese Ivory Okimono
Miniature ivory sculptures, Okimono, are the larger ornamental carvings. They were made as ornament for the tokonoma. Like netsuke, they represent Japanese habits and mythology. Buddhist idols and Noh masks inspired many artist when creating his miniature sculptures. They were made out of wood and ivory and very often sculptured by netsuke carvers during the Meiji period.
Wood was the only material employed during different centuries both in temples and Japanese [...] Click here to continue reading.
Japanese Bags & Tobacco Pouches
A kinchaku is a purse, bag or pouch, usually having a drawstring. A tabakoire being specifically a tobacco pouch.
Information courtesy of the Freedictionary.com
Alfred Jansson (1863-1931)
Jansson was born in Sweden in 1863 and emigrated to Chicago in 1889. He spent most of his career there, painting impressionist landscapes. He studied in Stockholm and in Paris. He was a member of the Chicago Artist Club, Palette and Chisel Club, Swedish American Artists, and the Chicago Artist Guild. He exhibited at the Columbian Expo (1893) and the Art Institute of Chicago (1910s). Jansson died in 1931.
Alois Janak (born 1924)
Born in Krasne Brezno, Czechoslovakia, 1924 the son of a headmaster, the contemporary painter, etcher and lithographer Alois Janak first studied art in Prague during World War II under Professor Spacek in 1943. Following the war he worked as in the Prague aircraft factories and studied agriculture. Janak became embroiled in Czechoslovakia’s post-war political turmoil and escaped to Bavaria, and then Paris, in 1949. He completed his education in both [...] Click here to continue reading.
James Holly Duck Decoys
James T. Holly (1855 to 1935), decoy carver and sneak boat builder of Havre de Grace, Maryland. Jim was the youngest of carver John ‘Daddy’ Holly.
Edme Marie Eduard Paul Jacoulet (1902*-1960)
Born on January 23, 1902* in Paris to a French family who moved to Japan in 1906 where Jacoulet pere taught French at the Imperial University. Paul was a self-taught artist, and, in 1929, went on a long trip to the islands of the South Pacific. Jacoulet made many sketches and photographs of local natives, dressed and posed elegantly. It was this work that he first translated [...] Click here to continue reading.
Oscar Jacobson (1882 to 1966)
Oscar Jacobson was an important early art figure in Oklahoma. A student of Birger Sandzen, he graduated from Bethany College in Linsborg, Kansas, in 1908. He subsequently studied at the Louvre in Paris and took his graduate study at Yale University. From 1915 to 1945, he was head of the art department at the University of Oklahoma. In 1916, with Nan Sheets he organized the Association of Oklahoma Artists. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Antonio Jacobsen
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1850, Antonio Nicolo Gaspara Jacobsen studied art at the Royal Academy of Design in Copenhagen and came to New York City in 1871 to avoid being drafted into the Franco-Prussian War.
To earn money, Jacobsen decorated safe doors for the Marvin Safe Company and began painting ship portraits for the Old Dominion Steamship Line. His reputation grew to the point that he was widely regarded as one [...] Click here to continue reading.
J. & E. Stevens Banks & Toys
John and Elisha Stevens founded the J. & E. Stevens Co. in 1843. Based in Cromwell, Connecticut, the company manufactured hardware equipment, but switched to toys and banks in the 1870′s when an inventor named John Hall introduced the Stevens to his patented design for a bank with moving parts. Hall named the bank the Excelsior and it soon revolutionized the cast iron toy industry, acting as [...] Click here to continue reading.
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