Tea Pot
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Jun 1893
name: label: Donor Name
content: William W. Rockhill
notes: label: Notes
content: Black clay with attached brass top. Incised lines, especially around the shoulder, and embedded with very small white glazed ceramic sherds. The ledger book entry for this catalog number says that it is two red earthenware pots [now E167231-0 and E167231-1], but it does not mention this black pot. Also, both of the red pots have the catalog number written on them, while the black one does not have any numbers on it. Therefore, it is possible that this pot was not originally part of this catalog number (it may have been added later by Rockhill). However, a photo of this teapot appears in the 1893 USNM Annual Report, described as catalog number "167231c" (Rockhill, "Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet", in USNM AR, 1893; Pl. 15, fig. 3, p. 704) and no other catalog number has been found for it. Therefore, it will retain this number.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Mar 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Litang (Lit'ang), Sichuan Province (Szechuan), China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tibetan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027007
label: USNM Number
content: E167231-2
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Teapot