Porcelain Lantern (Toro)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "'ARITA"- VICTOR HAUGE. ORIGINALLY CALLED "HIRADO" PORCELAIN. MADE IN 3 PARTS (WHICH DO NOT FIT TOGETHER AT ALL WELL): BASE WITH COLUMN, LANTERN FOR CENTER SECTION, AND A CAP OR ROOF. BASE IN HEXAGONAL WITH TOP SLOPING IN TOWARD THE CENTRAL COLUMN ON WHICH RESTS THE GLOBULAR PERFORATED CENTRAL LANTERN SECTION. ROOF IS ALSO HEXAGONAL WITH CONCAVO-CONVEX PITCH, SURMOUNTED WITH A SMALL TAZZA-SHAPED FORM, THE CENTER OF WHICH IS AN EGG-SHAPED ORNAMENT WITH FOUR FLOWERS. MADE OF HEAVY WHITE PORCELAIN PAINTED IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITH A FLORAL DESIGN, BUT SUBSEQUENTLY ABOUT HALF HAS BEEN VERY POORLY OVERPAINTED IN UNFIRED RUST RED COLOR, AND THEN PAINTED IN GOLD WITH BIRDS AND FLOWERS. THIS LATTER PAINT IS PEELING OFF VERY BADLY . BASE AND ROOF HAVE BOTH BEEN BROKEN AND REPAIRED. SOME OF THE DECORATIVE EXTENSIONS ON THE ROOF ARE MISSING. ITEM WAS ONCE CALLED A VASE. THIS IS A PORCELAIN VERSION OF THE TRADITIONAL "ISHIDORO" OR STONE LANTERN. INVENTORIED 1968."
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. 60 (listed under incorrect # 156).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E14189-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lantern