Japanese Ceramic Gold

Artisans began using lacquer and gold pigment to put shattered vessels back together.

Japanese ceramic gold.

Kintsugi is said to have originated in the 15th century when a japanese shogun broke a favorite tea bowl and sent it back to china to be fixed. Pottery and porcelain 陶磁器 tōjiki also 焼きもの yakimono or 陶芸 tōgei is one of the oldest japanese crafts and art forms dating back to the neolithic period. Kilns have produced earthenware pottery stoneware glazed pottery glazed stoneware porcelain and blue and white ware japan has an exceptionally long and successful history of ceramic production. Antique japanese hand painted gold figural porcelain compote dish bowl tazza.

From 1921 1941 wares from japan exported to the united states had to be marked japan or made in japan. This technique transforms broken ceramic or pottery into beautiful art to it s its new life enhancing the break lines with gold giving the mended broken pottery. Make offer antique japanese hand painted gold figural porcelain compote dish bowl tazza. Antique satsuma type bowl outer inner lids finely done gold accents.

This lesson is intended to show the difference between the two kintsugi implementations methods and to learn how it is done. Kintsugi 金継ぎ golden joinery also known as kintsukuroi 金繕い golden repair is the japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold silver or platinum a method similar to the maki e technique. This tradition known as kintsugi meaning golden seams or kintsukuroi golden repair is still going strong. Poetically translated to golden joinery kintsugi or kintsukuroi is the centuries old japanese art of fixing broken pottery.

According to lakeside pottery. Some refer to it as kintsugi art with a metaphor of kintsugi life re birth or wabi sabi philosophy. Some four or five centuries ago in japan a lavish technique emerged for repairing broken ceramics. Rather than rejoin ceramic pieces with a camouflaged adhesive the kintsugi technique employs a special tree sap lacquer dusted with powdered gold silver or platinum.

During world war ii most ceramics factories for exports ceased except noritake see japanese ceramics of the last 100 years by irene stitt pg 167. After the war exports were labled made in occupied japan. As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object rather than something. The meaning of kintsugi kintsukuroi gold repair art.

The translation from japanese of kintsugi or kintsukuroi means golden joinery or repair with gold where the gold powder is applied on lacquer. We restore ceramic objects implementing the japanese art of broken pottery repair kintsugi kintsukuroi using 23 5k gold and lacquer or our proprietary developed process and materials with encapsulated gold effect metals. Japanese kintsukuroi chawan. The name of the technique is derived from the words kin golden and tsugi joinery which translate to mean golden repair.