Editing Imari ware (section)

=== Chinese Imari ===
[[File:Dresden Porcelain Collection - 07-1975.jpg|right|thumb|Chinese Imari porcelain vases of the [[Kangxi period]] (1662–1722), [[Qing dynasty]]]]
Though sophisticated wares in authentic Japanese styles were being made at Arita for the fastidious home market, European–style designations of [[Arita porcelain]] were formed after blue and white kraak porcelains, imitating Chinese underglaze "blue-and-white" wares, or made use of [[Vitreous enamel|enamel]] colors over [[underglaze]]s of [[cobalt blue]] and iron red.  The ware often used copious [[gilding]], sometimes with spare isolated sprigged [[vignette (graphic design)|vignette]]s, but often densely patterned in compartments. There were two quite different styles in these wares.<ref>Oliver Impey, "Japanese export art of the Edo Period and its influence on European art", ''Modern Asian Studies'' '''18'''.4, Special Issue: Edo Culture and Its Modern Legacy (1984, pp. 685–697) p. 695. "On the one hand a gaudy, brash brightly coloured and highly decorated style, the Imari style."</ref> Globular Imari [[teapot]]s with swan-necked spouts helped establish the classic European form for these new necessities of life.

Dutch traders had a monopoly on the insatiable export trade, the first large order being placed at Arita by the Dutch East India Company in 1656. The trade peaked in the late 17th century and was slowly replaced by Chinese kilns in the early 18th century; it ended in 1756, as social conditions in China settled with the full establishment of the Qing Dynasty. Imitating Arita designs, fine "Chinese Imari" export wares were produced in the 18th century, eclipsing the original Japanese exports.