Cup

Museum number:
9-22688
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Accession number:
Acc.4349
Description:
ceramic tea cup with flare sides. white ground with blue decoration. narrow blue band just above base and second band. 0.8cm above base band. 4.3cm of side decorated with fluted segments which end in rounded ends, 2 floral motifs are superimposed over the flutes. outer rim is blue forming a background for the fluting. interior lip decorated with 2 narrow blue bands. 4.1cm from rim is a single blue band and a brushed Japanese character at 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:
diameter 8.6 centimeters and height 6 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 9-22688, described as ceramic tea cup with flare sides. white ground with blue decoration. narrow blue band just above base and second band. 0.8cm above base band. 4.3cm of side decorated with fluted segments which end in rounded ends, 2 floral motifs are superimposed over the flutes. outer rim is blue forming a background for the fluting. interior lip decorated with 2 narrow blue bands. 4.1cm from rim is a single blue band and a brushed Japanese character at bottom.

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