Dish

Museum number:
9-12270
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012270
Alternate number:
1490 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.07
Description:
plate, stoneware, w/ "horse-eye" design (Seto). Six "Horse-eyes" of brushed on oblong spirals of brown-iron glaze which overlap, on a yellow-creamy-buff ground. Spiral design enclosed by band at top (rim) and below. Surface of the thick glaze is crackled and spotted. Dia. 26 cm. H. 7 cm.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and George H. Kerr
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan; Aichi Prefecture (Owari), Seto; 19th c. att.
Collector:
George H. Kerr
Collection date:
before 1957
Materials:
Clay
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Stoneware (pottery)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
The 'umanome-zara' overtook the 'ishi-zara' in popularity in the mid. 19th century for use by food vendors because they were easier and cheaper to manufacture. They lack the wide turned back flange of the 'ishi-zara'.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 7 centimeters and diameter 26 centimeters
Comment:
Similar to 9-12271
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 9-12270, described as plate, stoneware, w/ "horse-eye" design (Seto). Six "Horse-eyes" of brushed on oblong spirals of brown-iron glaze which overlap, on a yellow-creamy-buff ground. Spiral design enclosed by band at top (rim) and below. Surface of the thick glaze is crackled and spotted. Dia. 26 cm. H. 7 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 9-12270, described as plate, stoneware, w/ "horse-eye" design (Seto). Six "Horse-eyes" of brushed on oblong spirals of brown-iron glaze which overlap, on a yellow-creamy-buff ground. Spiral design enclosed by band at top (rim) and below. Surface of the thick glaze is crackled and spotted. Dia. 26 cm. H. 7 cm.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 9-12270, described as plate, stoneware, w/ "horse-eye" design (Seto). Six "Horse-eyes" of brushed on oblong spirals of brown-iron glaze which overlap, on a yellow-creamy-buff ground. Spiral design enclosed by band at top (rim) and below. Surface of the thick glaze is crackled and spotted. Dia. 26 cm. H. 7 cm.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 9-12270, described as plate, stoneware, w/ "horse-eye" design (Seto). Six "Horse-eyes" of brushed on oblong spirals of brown-iron glaze which overlap, on a yellow-creamy-buff ground. Spiral design enclosed by band at top (rim) and below. Surface of the thick glaze is crackled and spotted. Dia. 26 cm. H. 7 cm.

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