Pottery Teapot (Dobin; Chabin; Chadashi)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HARD FIRED GREYISH POTTERY WITH DARK BROWN GLAZE. THIN BRASS LOOP HANDLE. ON THREE SMALL FEET. THOUGH THIS ITEM HAD 4334 ON IT, THIS WAS A MISTAKE BECAUSE ANOTHER SPECIMEN IS CALLED FOR. JAN. 1969 LOAN TO JAPAN SOCIETY N.Y.C."
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 54. Houchins notes that the shape of the teapot is known as "Satsuma" shape.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
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: E285-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Teapot
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 9.8 cm
label: Depth
content: 14 cm