tea bowl; glazed ceramic; white porcelain ground with blue curvilinear design on upper half; stamped on base "KOCHAK Burgaon Porcelain India" Rim diameter 11 cm.
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner
Collection place:
Pahalgam, Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir
Verbatim coll. place:
India, Kashmir, Pahalgam, main street bazaar
Culture or time period:
Indian
Collector:
Richard Lerner
Collection date:
July 1969
Materials:
Porcelain (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1970
Context of use:
for drinking Kashmire-style tea. used by both men and women. also used in Srinagar and Gulmarg. cost 2 rupees