Covered Pottery Jar, For Tea (?) (Chaki?; Choka?)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SAME AS CAT. NO. 134: DARK BROWN GLAZED COVERED CYLINDRICAL POTTERY BOX." AT ONE TIME THIS WAS RENUMBERED AS 4197, BUT IT HAS BEEN RETURNED TO ITS ORIGINAL NUMBER OF 135. FROM CARD FOR 4197: "STONE WARE MADE OF A HARD SANDY BLUISH GREY CLAY, COVERED WITH A DARK BROWN PEBBLED GLAZE. FORM: A CYLINDRICAL BODY SHOULDERED TO RECEIVE A FLAT, RIMMED COVER OF THE SAME DIAMETER. COVER BROKEN. MARK STAMPED ON BOTTOM. INVENTORIED 1968."
label: Notes
content: 2 parts: box and lid.
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 58
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E135-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jar