Box top

Museum number:
9-12540
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
None (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Box top (?), novelty (?); porcelain. Probably a top to a missing box: Porcelain bowl in the shape of Daruma (Bodhidharma) with red hood and robes. Small face on one side is white with painted black eyes and red mouth. Interior is half spherical shape. Caked green pigment (?) with some smudges on the outside. Piece has been broken and mended with two missing chips.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Materials:
Porcelain (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers) and Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 8 titled Box top, accession number 9-12540, described as Box top (?), novelty (?); porcelain. Probably a top to a missing box: Porcelain bowl in the shape of Daruma (Bodhidharma) with red hood and robes. Small face on one side is white with painted black eyes and red mouth. Interior is half spherical shape. Caked green pigment (?) with some smudges on the outside. Piece has been broken and mended with two missing chips.Hearst Museum object 2 of 8 titled Box top, accession number 9-12540, described as Box top (?), novelty (?); porcelain. Probably a top to a missing box: Porcelain bowl in the shape of Daruma (Bodhidharma) with red hood and robes. Small face on one side is white with painted black eyes and red mouth. Interior is half spherical shape. Caked green pigment (?) with some smudges on the outside. Piece has been broken and mended with two missing chips.Hearst Museum object 3 of 8 titled Box top, accession number 9-12540, described as Box top (?), novelty (?); porcelain. Probably a top to a missing box: Porcelain bowl in the shape of Daruma (Bodhidharma) with red hood and robes. Small face on one side is white with painted black eyes and red mouth. Interior is half spherical shape. Caked green pigment (?) with some smudges on the outside. Piece has been broken and mended with two missing chips.Hearst Museum object 4 of 8 titled Box top, accession number 9-12540, described as Box top (?), novelty (?); porcelain. Probably a top to a missing box: Porcelain bowl in the shape of Daruma (Bodhidharma) with red hood and robes. Small face on one side is white with painted black eyes and red mouth. Interior is half spherical shape. Caked green pigment (?) with some smudges on the outside. Piece has been broken and mended with two missing chips.Hearst Museum object 5 of 8 titled Box top, accession number 9-12540, described as Box top (?), novelty (?); porcelain. Probably a top to a missing box: Porcelain bowl in the shape of Daruma (Bodhidharma) with red hood and robes. Small face on one side is white with painted black eyes and red mouth. Interior is half spherical shape. Caked green pigment (?) with some smudges on the outside. Piece has been broken and mended with two missing chips.Hearst Museum object 6 of 8 titled Box top, accession number 9-12540, described as Box top (?), novelty (?); porcelain. Probably a top to a missing box: Porcelain bowl in the shape of Daruma (Bodhidharma) with red hood and robes. Small face on one side is white with painted black eyes and red mouth. Interior is half spherical shape. Caked green pigment (?) with some smudges on the outside. Piece has been broken and mended with two missing chips.Hearst Museum object 7 of 8 titled Box top, accession number 9-12540, described as Box top (?), novelty (?); porcelain. Probably a top to a missing box: Porcelain bowl in the shape of Daruma (Bodhidharma) with red hood and robes. Small face on one side is white with painted black eyes and red mouth. Interior is half spherical shape. Caked green pigment (?) with some smudges on the outside. Piece has been broken and mended with two missing chips.Hearst Museum object 8 of 8 titled Box top, accession number 9-12540, described as Box top (?), novelty (?); porcelain. Probably a top to a missing box: Porcelain bowl in the shape of Daruma (Bodhidharma) with red hood and robes. Small face on one side is white with painted black eyes and red mouth. Interior is half spherical shape. Caked green pigment (?) with some smudges on the outside. Piece has been broken and mended with two missing chips.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box top, accession number 9-12540, described as Box top (?), novelty (?); porcelain. Probably a top to a missing box: Porcelain bowl in the shape of Daruma (Bodhidharma) with red hood and robes. Small face on one side is white with painted black eyes and red mouth. Interior is half spherical shape. Caked green pigment (?) with some smudges on the outside. Piece has been broken and mended with two missing chips.

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