Vase

Museum number:
9-12341
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012341
Alternate number:
1545 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.07
Description:
Flower bottle, for altar use, porcelain. Tapered cylinder made to resemble bamboo with joint. Underglaze decoration of bamboo in blue with blue-green leaves, on one side. Flat foot-base is warped, has three chips. White ground. Height 12cm. From Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen), Arita, "Imari".
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and George H. Kerr
Collection place:
Saga Prefecture, Northern Kyūshū, Kyūshū region
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan; Imari, Hizan
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)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12341, described as Flower bottle, for altar use, porcelain. Tapered cylinder made to resemble bamboo with joint. Underglaze decoration of bamboo in blue with blue-green leaves, on one side. Flat foot-base is warped, has three chips. White ground. Height 12cm. From Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen), Arita, "Imari".
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12341, described as Flower bottle, for altar use, porcelain. Tapered cylinder made to resemble bamboo with joint. Underglaze decoration of bamboo in blue with blue-green leaves, on one side. Flat foot-base is warped, has three chips. White ground. Height 12cm. From Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen), Arita, "Imari".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12341, described as Flower bottle, for altar use, porcelain. Tapered cylinder made to resemble bamboo with joint. Underglaze decoration of bamboo in blue with blue-green leaves, on one side. Flat foot-base is warped, has three chips. White ground. Height 12cm. From Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen), Arita, "Imari".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12341, described as Flower bottle, for altar use, porcelain. Tapered cylinder made to resemble bamboo with joint. Underglaze decoration of bamboo in blue with blue-green leaves, on one side. Flat foot-base is warped, has three chips. White ground. Height 12cm. From Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen), Arita, "Imari".

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