Oil plate
- Museum number:
- 9-12279
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090012279
- Alternate number:
- 1497 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.07
- Description:
- oil plate (lantern saucer), ceramic. thick, flat w/ rim; stylized floral motif drawn on center in underglaze brown and black, on a creamy white ground now encrusted w/ oil and dirt, w/ gray-brown appearance. surface very worn; rim has many chips. dia 22.6 cm. floral design similar to 9-12280
- Donor:
- Design Department (UC Berkeley) and George H. Kerr
- Collection place:
- Japan
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Japan; Aichi Prefecture (Owari), Setp; att. late 18th-19th c.
- Collector:
- George H. Kerr
- Collection date:
- before 1957
- Materials:
- Glaze (coating by location) and Glaze (coating by location) (high-fired earthenware; wheel thrown. brushed-on iron-brown glaze decoration;)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Earthenware
- Function:
- 4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
- Accession date:
- 1974
- Context of use:
- placed under oil lamp ('andon'), to catch drippings
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 22.6 centimeters
- Comment:
- Exhibited: UCB Art Museum 4/26/77 - 6/19/77 exhibit # 61 design similar to 9-12280
- Loans:
- S1976-1977 #62: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (April 4, 1977–July 20, 1977)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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