Pottery Water Pitcher (Mizu Sashi)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
label: Collection Date
content: 1854
name: label: Collector
content: Commodore Matthew C. Perry
label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SHORT OVOID BODY, LARGE LOW NECK, CONICAL SPOUT, FIXED BAIL, CONVEX KNOBBED COVER. HARD FIRED REDDISH GREY CLAY, BLACK GLAZE OUTSIDE, AND THIN TRANSPARENT GLAZE INSIDE. DECORATED AROUND THE TOP WITH SPLASHES OF GREENISH GLAZE. S. KYUSHU." ACCORDING TO HOUCHINS, 1995, P. 59, IT IS BLACK SATSUMA WARE, AND "... WAS PROBABLY RECEIVED FROM THE REGENT OF THE KINGDOM OF RYUKYU AT NAHA IN JULY 1854".
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 59.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Naha, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 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: E282-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 25.5 cm
label: Depth
content: 16.4 cm