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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Japan, Room 45, The Toshiba Gallery

Vase

1580-1600 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase in the shape of a drum with a yellowish glaze.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, glazed
Brief description
Vase, in the shape of a drum with yellowish glaze; Japan, Momoyama period, 1580-1600
Physical description
Vase in the shape of a drum with a yellowish glaze.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.4cm
  • Mouth diameter: 13.6cm
Styles
Gallery label
  • Vase In The Shape of a Drum Stoneware with yellow glaze Mino kilns (Yellow Seto type) About 1585-1600(1986)
  • Vase in the shape of a drum Mino kilns (Yellow Seto type) Stoneware with yellow ash glaze 1580-1600 V&A 176-1877 (December 2014)
Object history
Purchased from the Japanese Commissioners for the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876, accessioned in 1877. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project.
Production
Mino ware, Yellow Seto type
Association
Bibliographic reference
Augustus Wollaston Franks and M. Shioda, Japanese Pottery. [London]: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1880. South Kensington Museum Art Handbooks; 18. Catalogue number 17
Collection
Accession number
176-1877

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Record createdDecember 15, 1999
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