Cup

Museum number:
9-22681
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4349
Description:
ceramic tea cup; white with blue decoration in 16 alternating panels - cross hatch and "diaper" designs, 2 narrow blue bands just above base. 2 narrow blue bands inside lip and a single blue band where exterior wall meets base. decorative emblem at center bottom of cup. (per donor: end of early period 17 cent.?)
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 7.7 centimeters and height 6 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 9-22681, described as ceramic tea cup; white with blue decoration in 16 alternating panels - cross hatch and "diaper" designs, 2 narrow blue bands just above base. 2 narrow blue bands inside lip and a single blue band where exterior wall meets base. decorative emblem at center bottom of cup. (per donor: end of early period 17 cent.?)

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