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

Tea Bowl

1725-1775 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tea bowl of coarse pale stoneware with pinkish white glaze; single notch to footring.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Glazed stoneware
Brief description
Tea bowl, stoneware with pinkish white glaze; Japan, Hagi ware, Edo period, mid 18th century
Physical description
Tea bowl of coarse pale stoneware with pinkish white glaze; single notch to footring.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.9cm
  • Diameter: 13.7cm
  • Weight: 340g
Styles
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
Dating of 1725-1775 proposed by Ishizaki Yasuyuki and Tokudome Daisuke, curators, Hagi Uragami Museum, during a research visit to the V&A on 28 January 2011.
Association
Bibliographic reference
Augustus Wollaston Franks and M. Shioda, Japanese Pottery. [London]: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1880. South Kensington Museum Art Handbooks; 18. Catalogue number 59
Collection
Accession number
218-1877

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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