Food Container
1580-1610 (made)
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Food container (mukozuke), one of a pair. Four-sided, painted with foliage in underglaze iron brown. Shino type.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Glazed stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze iron |
| Brief description | Food container (mukozuke), stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze iron; Japan, Mino kilns (Shino type), Momoyama period, 1580-1610 |
| Physical description | Food container (mukozuke), one of a pair. Four-sided, painted with foliage in underglaze iron brown. Shino type. |
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| Gallery label | PAIR OF FOOD CONTAINERS
Stoneware with white feldspathic glaze over decoration painted in underglaze iron
Mino ware (Decorated Shino type)
JAPANESE; c.1585-1600
178 & A-1877(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. |
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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 19 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 178A-1877 |
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| Record created | February 19, 2010 |
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