Porcelain Planter (Ueki-Bachi Hanaike)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SHALLOW RECTANGULAR DISH RAISED ON FOUR FEET. OF HEAVY WHITE PORCELAIN, THE FLAT RIM EXTENDING OUT. DECORATED IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE - THE FLAT RIM WITH GREEK KEY DESIGN, THE ENDS WITH FLYING CRANES, AND THE SIDES WITH A "TRELLIS" DESIGN AND INSECTS. BOTTOM NOT GLAZED. *THOUGH ORIGINALLY CALLED A VEGETABLE DISH, IT PROBABLY WAS FOR PLANTS INSTEAD."
label: Notes
content: See Chang-Su Houchins. 1995. Artifacts of Diplomacy: Smithsonian Collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854). Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Number 37. P 64
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E108-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Planter
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 37.5 cm
label: Width
content: 25.5 cm
label: Height
content: 12.5 cm