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)