Iron Wine Server With Stand (Choshi, Gotoku)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "GLOBULAR SHAPE, SLIGHTLY WIDER THAN HIGH, WITH LONG SPOUT (OPEN) ON ONE SIDE AND A FIXED HOLLOW BRASS HANDLE. FITTED FOR A COVER WHICH IS NOT PRESENT. THERE IS A TRIPOD IRON STAND THAT FITS IT, ALSO IT HAS THREE SMALL FEET ON THE POT. 4/1969 THOUGH THE ORIGINAL LISTING HAD MADE A DITTO ENTRY IMPLYING "HOLDERS", THE SECOND CATALOGING REFERING TO THIS NUMBER CALLED THE ITEM A "BUCKET", AND THIS UNNUMBERED ITEM APPEARED TO FIT THE DESCRIPTION AS A TEAPOT."
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 108
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 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: E332-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wine Server / Stand
physicalDescription: label: Height - Server,
content: 8 cm
label: Depth - Server
content: 14 cm
label: Height - Stand
content: 7 cm
label: Depth - Stand
content: 11.2 cm