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context: ceramics > Edo period
Prices
A digression here to mention something interesting from the Victoria & Albert's book Japanese Art and Design. When they started buying lots of ceramics from Japan, just after the end of the Edo period, the pieces that cost a lot were the extravagantly coloured porcelains such as Satsuma ware - the cite one nasty incense burner costing twenty times as much as a terrific old piece from Bizen, and, most shockingly, eight times as much as a black Raku tea bowl by Hon'ami Koetsu. I guess this says something about how the Japanese tastes had changed by that point, perhaps with a strong influence from Western taste and money.