Pottery Vase (Hana-Ike; Kabin)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "STRAIGHT SIDED, BASICALLY CYLINDRICAL FORM BUT TAPERING SLIGHTLY TOWARD THE TOP. SHOULDERED NEAR THE TOP JUST BELOW SHORT STRAIGHT NECK (WIDE), WITH NARROW EVERTED RIM. VERTICAL LOOP HANDLE JUST BELOW THE SHOULDER ON EACH SIDE. MADE OF BUFF BODIED CLAY, GLAZED IN A DULL BROWN FROM THE TOP BUT FROM THE BOTTOM BROAD STREAKS OF MAROON WHICH SHOWS SOME YELLOW THROUGH. OVER THIS ARE PAINTED FLOWERS, CRANES (IN FLIGHT), AND CLOUDS IN BLACK, RED, AND YELLOW. ALSO AROUND THE NECK ARE OVERGLAZE PAINTED DESIGNS OF GREEK KEY TYPE IN DULL GREEN WITH DARK LINES. CALLED "IDSUMO FAIENCE". TWO JAPANESE MARKS STAMPED ON THE BOTTOM. WHERE THE STILT MARKS ALSO SHOW."
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 53
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E106-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Vase
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 22 cm
label: Depth
content: 11 cm