Porcelain Water Jar (Mizubachi; Chozubachi)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PORCELAIN WHITE PORCELAIN WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE DECORATION OF LARGE FLOWERS ON ONE SIDE AND A MYTHOLOGICAL BIRD ON THE OTHER WITH BORDERS OF FLORAL AND CROSSHATCHED DESIGNS JUST BELOW THE RIM. *THE FORM IS NOT TECHNICALLY CYLINDRICAL, BUT RATHER A LARGE GLOBULAR FORM WITH CONVEX SIDES AND A SHORT STRAIGHT NECK AND A SLIGHTLY EVERTED RIM. ON ONE SIDE NEAR THE BOTTOM THERE IS AN ORIGINAL FLAW, WHERE THE GLAZE IS MISSING. 6/1968 THOUGH THIS ITEM HAD NOT BEEN DEFINITELY IDENTIFIED WITH THE CORRECT NUMBER, THE FAINT REMAINS OF THE DUPLICATE NUMBER: 4154 WAS FOUND ON ONE SIDE, AND NO OTHER MARK, AND THEREFORE IT HAS BEEN TENTATIVELY IDENTIFIED WITH THIS NUMBER. THE LATER SERIES OF NUMBERS WERE APPLIED TO THE SPECIMENS FROM THIS COLLECTION BY MISTAKE.-ROBERT ELDER."
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 63
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: E105-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jar
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 34.5 cm
label: Depth
content: 33.7 cm