Vase

Museum number:
9-12335
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012335
Alternate number:
1535 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.07
Description:
Sake bottle, porcelain. For altar use (?). Pear shape with long narrow neck and flared lip. Undeglae brushed decoration in light blue of stems, leaves and larger petaled flowers on a ground of white. The lower half has greyed. Grey-blue, band around lower half and two on the short foot. The glaze has many small bubbles in it. A few pits and scratches around body. Height 16cm. From Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen Province), Arita, "Imari" ware. Attributed to 18th century.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and George H. Kerr
Collection place:
Saga Prefecture, Northern Kyūshū, Kyūshū region
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan; Saga Prefecture (Hizen), Arita, "Imari", Hizan
Collection date:
before 1957
Materials:
Glaze (coating by location)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Vases
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1976-1977 #62: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (April 4, 1977–July 20, 1977)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12335, described as Sake bottle, porcelain. For altar use (?). Pear shape with long narrow neck and flared lip. Undeglae brushed decoration in light blue of stems, leaves and larger petaled flowers on a ground of white. The lower half has greyed. Grey-blue, band around lower half and two on the short foot. The glaze has many small bubbles in it. A few pits and scratches around body. Height 16cm. From Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen Province), Arita, "Imari" ware. Attributed to 18th century.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12335, described as Sake bottle, porcelain. For altar use (?). Pear shape with long narrow neck and flared lip. Undeglae brushed decoration in light blue of stems, leaves and larger petaled flowers on a ground of white. The lower half has greyed. Grey-blue, band around lower half and two on the short foot. The glaze has many small bubbles in it. A few pits and scratches around body. Height 16cm. From Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen Province), Arita, "Imari" ware. Attributed to 18th century.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12335, described as Sake bottle, porcelain. For altar use (?). Pear shape with long narrow neck and flared lip. Undeglae brushed decoration in light blue of stems, leaves and larger petaled flowers on a ground of white. The lower half has greyed. Grey-blue, band around lower half and two on the short foot. The glaze has many small bubbles in it. A few pits and scratches around body. Height 16cm. From Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen Province), Arita, "Imari" ware. Attributed to 18th century.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12335, described as Sake bottle, porcelain. For altar use (?). Pear shape with long narrow neck and flared lip. Undeglae brushed decoration in light blue of stems, leaves and larger petaled flowers on a ground of white. The lower half has greyed. Grey-blue, band around lower half and two on the short foot. The glaze has many small bubbles in it. A few pits and scratches around body. Height 16cm. From Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen Province), Arita, "Imari" ware. Attributed to 18th century.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12335, described as Sake bottle, porcelain. For altar use (?). Pear shape with long narrow neck and flared lip. Undeglae brushed decoration in light blue of stems, leaves and larger petaled flowers on a ground of white. The lower half has greyed. Grey-blue, band around lower half and two on the short foot. The glaze has many small bubbles in it. A few pits and scratches around body. Height 16cm. From Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen Province), Arita, "Imari" ware. Attributed to 18th century.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12335, described as Sake bottle, porcelain. For altar use (?). Pear shape with long narrow neck and flared lip. Undeglae brushed decoration in light blue of stems, leaves and larger petaled flowers on a ground of white. The lower half has greyed. Grey-blue, band around lower half and two on the short foot. The glaze has many small bubbles in it. A few pits and scratches around body. Height 16cm. From Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen Province), Arita, "Imari" ware. Attributed to 18th century.

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