Wine Cup (Sakazuki)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HEMISPHERICAL CUP ON A LOW FOOTRING, IN VERY THIN WHITE PORCELAIN. OVERGLAZE DECORATION IN BLUE: A ROW OF GREEK FRET DESIGNS BELOW RIM, AND IN THE CENTER IRIS FLOWERS AND TWO BIRDS. ALSO A MARK IN RED. SAID TO BE FOR SAKE BUT PROBABLY AVAILABLE FOR SEVERAL LIQUIDS."
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 56 - 57.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jul 2022
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: E201-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cup
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 3 cm
label: Depth
content: 6.3 cm