Blue-and-white covered box with landscape scene on lid / Kiln Unknown, Vietnam

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Accession Number: 1993/2.22.1-2
Title: Blue-and-white covered box with landscape scene on lid
Artist: Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
Artist Nationality: Vietnamese
Medium and Support: stoneware with blue underglaze painting
Object Creation Date: 16th century
Object Creation Place: Asia (continent); Vietnam (nation)
Creation Place 1: Asia (continent)
Creation Place 2: Vietnam (nation)
Credit Line: Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
Dimensions: 4.6 cm x 6.2 cm x 6.2 cm (1 13/16 in. x 2 7/16 in. x 2 7/16 in.)
Century: 16th century
Primary Object Classification: Ceramic
Primary Object Type: box
Secondary Object Classification: Decorative Arts
Physical Description: A stoneware ceramic box, with a rounded bowl and a nearly flat lid, decorated with a free-hand drawn landscape in underglaze cobalt blue on the lid, and then coated in a whitish glaze overall.
Subject Matter: A lakeside landscape scene in painted in blue cobalt pigments on the lid of this box.
Primary Keywords: boxes (containers); landscapes (representations)
Secondary Keywords: containers; containers by form; objects we use; visual works; visual works by subject type
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 2104 x 1732
File Size: 485 KB
Record: 1993/2.22.1-2
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Full citation: "Blue-and-white covered box with landscape scene on lid; Kiln Unknown, Vietnam." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1993-sl-2.22.1-2/1993_2_22.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.