Flask
500-600 (made)
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Flask of reduced stoneware, with hooked handles, and with plaited bamboo surround.
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Stoneware |
Brief description | Flask, reduced stoneware with bamboo surround, owner's mark in red lacquer on base; Japan, Sue ware, Kofun period, 500-600 |
Physical description | Flask of reduced stoneware, with hooked handles, and with plaited bamboo surround. |
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Marks and inscriptions | Unidentified owner's mark in red lacquer on base |
Gallery label | FLASK
Reduced stoneware with bamboo surround
Owner's mark in red lacquer on base
Sue ware
JAPANESE; c.500-600
161-1877
This flask was converted into a hanging flower vase by a tea ceremony practitioner sometime after the 16th century.(As at 2005) |
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. |
Historical context | This flask was made as a burial accessory, but was converted into a hanging flower vase by a tea ceremony practitioner sometime after the 16th century. |
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Bibliographic reference | Augustus Wollaston Franks and M. Shioda, Japanese Pottery. [London]: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1880. South Kensington Museum Art Handbooks; 18.
Catalogue number 2; illustrated on p. 25 |
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Accession number | 161-1877 |
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Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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