Baku / model

Description

Porcelain model of a baku: Japan, ca. 1800

Museum reference

V.2015.10.2

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Baku / model

Production information

Japan, East Asia

Date

1795 - 1805

Materials

Porcelain

Physical description

Porcelain

References

Louis Lawrence, Hirado: Prince of Porcelains (Art Media Resources, 1997), plate 29

For a similar piece, see David Hyatt King, Delights for an Elite - Hirado's Earlier Figures and Models: A Suggested Chronology circa 1660-1830, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramics Society 79 (2014-15), fig. 5.

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 5 »
window on the world

Credit

Presented by David and Anne Hyatt King through the Art Fund