Lacquered Covered Bowl (Suimonowan)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: RECATALOGED AS ETHNOLOGY #4043 IN THE 1950'S, THEN RECATALOGING CANCELLED. CANCELLED NUMBER, IN BRACKETS, REMAINS ON OBJECT.FROM CARD: "CONICAL SHAPED (SMALL END DOWN) WOODEN CUP RED LACQUERED INSIDE, AND BLACK LACQUERED OUTSIDE. COVER IS SLIGHTLY SMALLER PIECE OF THE SAME SHAPE, THAT FITS INSIDE OF THE BOTTOM, AND HAS A GOLD PAINTED FLORAL SPRAY LACQUERED OVER THE BLACK. *THOUGH THESE WERE CALLED SAUCERS IN THE ORIGINAL CATALOG THIS WAS A MISTAKE BECAUSE NOT SO USED IN JAPAN, BUT RATHER AS COVERS FOR THESE PROBABLY RICE BOWLS.-R. ELDER."
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 14
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: E6-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 8.4 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 11.4 cm
label: Height
content: 8.4 cm
label: Depth
content: 11.5 cm