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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Box and Lid

mid 19th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Covered box of buff stoneware with green and translucent glazes over painting of leafy fronds, flowers and trellis in underglaze iron. Deep square box with faceted corners; flat lid with loop handle. Mould-made showing fabric impressions on interior of box and scraping marks on bottom of box and top of lid; three scalloped feet attached to flat base of box; small ridge of triangular cross-section attached near edge of underside of lid (for fitting lid to box-rather badly in actual practice); two sets of shallow channels running around upper side of lid near edge; striated loop handle attached to centre of lid. Glaze on lid covering the whole interior, and the underside inside the attached ridge - some wiping away of glaze; glaze on box covering the whole interior up to just below the mouthrim, the exterior down to the level of the base, and onto the exterior faces of the feet; slight bleeding and reddening go copper green glaze at edges. Three (or more?) spur marks on underside of lid.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Box
  • Lid
Materials and techniques
Buff stoneware, moulded, with green and translucent glazes over painting in underglaze iron
Brief description
Box and lid, buff stoneware with green and translucent glazes over painting in underglaze iron; Japan, Seto/Mino, mid 19th century
Physical description
Covered box of buff stoneware with green and translucent glazes over painting of leafy fronds, flowers and trellis in underglaze iron. Deep square box with faceted corners; flat lid with loop handle. Mould-made showing fabric impressions on interior of box and scraping marks on bottom of box and top of lid; three scalloped feet attached to flat base of box; small ridge of triangular cross-section attached near edge of underside of lid (for fitting lid to box-rather badly in actual practice); two sets of shallow channels running around upper side of lid near edge; striated loop handle attached to centre of lid. Glaze on lid covering the whole interior, and the underside inside the attached ridge - some wiping away of glaze; glaze on box covering the whole interior up to just below the mouthrim, the exterior down to the level of the base, and onto the exterior faces of the feet; slight bleeding and reddening go copper green glaze at edges. Three (or more?) spur marks on underside of lid.
Dimensions
  • Box height: 11cm
  • Lid width: 30.4cm
  • Lid length: 30.9cm
Styles
Credit line
Bequeathed by C. E. Hodgkin
Production
Green Oribe type
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Mitsuoka, Tadanari et al., eds. Tokai Koshinetsu-Nihon Yakimono Shusei Vol. 2, Heibonsha, 1982, plates p. 35, text pp. 112-117, 132-135.
Collection
Accession number
FE.9&A-1987

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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