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Water jar, presentation

Description

Porcelain water jar (mizusashi) with panels painted in underglaze blue with cranes over waves, cockerel and hen, plovers and crabs between finely sculpted masks on an incised geometric ground, Hirado Mikawachi ware: Japan, Hizen province, Mikawachi, c. 1800

Museum reference

V.2015.10.9

Collection

Object name

Water jar, presentation

Production information

Mikawachi, Sasebo-shi, Nagasaki-ken, Japan, East Asia

Date

c. 1800

Materials

Physical description

Porcelain, blue and white

References

Louis Lawrence, Hirado: Prince of Porcelains (Art Media Resources, 1997), plate 100

Credit

Presented by David and Anne Hyatt King through the Art Fund

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