Porcelain Noodle-Sauce Cup (Choko; Choko-Hai; Choku)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HEAVY CYLINDRICAL WHITE PORCELAIN FORM, SLOPING IN SLIGHTLY TO THE FOOTRING. CENTER OF SIDES MOLDED INTO FLAT VERTICAL PANELS. DECORATED IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE - WIDE BELOW-RIM BAND OF FLOWER HEADS IN DIAMONDS, AND BELOW THIS A WIDE BAND OF SHORE AND MOUNTAIN SCENES. INSIDE OF RIM A BAND OF MODIFIED GREEK KEY DESIGNS. ON THE BOTTOM A SQUARE MARK IN BLUE. SLIGHT FLAW IN THE GLAZE ON THE UPPER RIM."
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 61
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
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: E125-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cup
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 7.5 cm
label: Depth
content: 8.3 cm