Spouted bowl, ceramic. Fujina ware. Small bowl with blue-green crackled glaze to within 2.5 cm of foot. The lip is rounded with an attached pouring lip that slants upward. One large crack from rim to base. Many small cracks in rim. Warped. Height 5.5 cm, Rim diameter 10 cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina. Attributed to 19th century.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and George H. Kerr
Collection place:
Tamayu-chō Fujina, Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan; Fujina, Izumo Attr
Collection date:
before 1957
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1976-1977 #62: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (April 4, 1977–July 20, 1977)