Bowl

Museum number:
9-12314
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012314
Alternate number:
1529 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.07
Description:
Bowl, ceramic, with pouring spout attached below rounded rim. Thick blue-green glaze fired at high temperature to produce "hare's fur" flambè. Only the outside rim and a few thick drops remain blue-green. Rim glaze is transparent, rest flambè. Clay is coarse, grey-buff stoneware. Height 7.5 cm, Rim diameter 13.5 cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and George H. Kerr
Collection place:
Tamayu-chō Fujina, Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan; Izumo Prov Attr
Collection date:
before 1957
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-12314, described as Bowl, ceramic, with pouring spout attached below rounded rim. Thick blue-green glaze fired at high temperature to produce "hare's fur" flambè. Only the outside rim and a few thick drops remain blue-green. Rim glaze is transparent, rest flambè. Clay is coarse, grey-buff stoneware. Height 7.5 cm, Rim diameter 13.5 cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-12314, described as Bowl, ceramic, with pouring spout attached below rounded rim. Thick blue-green glaze fired at high temperature to produce "hare's fur" flambè. Only the outside rim and a few thick drops remain blue-green. Rim glaze is transparent, rest flambè. Clay is coarse, grey-buff stoneware. Height 7.5 cm, Rim diameter 13.5 cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina.

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