Cup

Museum number:
9-22686
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Accession number:
Acc.4349
Description:
ceramic tea cup; straight sided with square shoulder. white ground with blue decoration of interlocking mesh design on straight wall. narrow blue band around base ring and at shoulder edge. 2 vaguely vegetal decorations just above base ring. interior decorated with 2 narrow blue bands at rim, an incomplete blue "C" with a blue figure off center on bottom.
Donor:
Estate of Elizabeth Huff
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Asia, Japan
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Collector:
Elizabeth Huff
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cups (drinking vessels)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 5, 1988
Context of use:
household
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 5.7 centimeters and diameter 7 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 9-22686, described as ceramic tea cup; straight sided with square shoulder. white ground with blue decoration of interlocking mesh design on straight wall. narrow blue band around base ring and at shoulder edge. 2 vaguely vegetal decorations just above base ring. interior decorated with 2 narrow blue bands at rim, an incomplete blue "C" with a blue figure off center on bottom.

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