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: "ESSENTIALLY CYLINDRICAL JAR (SIDES SLIGHTLY EXPANDED) OF THIN HARD FIRED GREY BODIED POTTERY (ALMOST STONEWARE) GLAZED BROWN (DARK) INSIDE AND OUT. SHARP SHOULDERED TO RECEIVE THE COVER THAT FITS OVER, AND IS SLIGHTLY CONVEX. ON THE BOTTOM IS STAMPED A RAISED MARK. SAID TO BE USED FOR POWDERED GREEN TEA. SETO AREA - VICTOR HAUGE".
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: E134-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jar