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- Title
- Covered jar with design of flower maiden, sage, and child amidst flowering plants
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Imari ware, Japan
- Physical Description
- A medium size, well potted porcelain jar with wooden rid, round shoulder and neck. Floral designs are painted with blue underglaze and red and gold overglaze enamels. There are Chinese scholar and attendant boy with a fan on one side and Japanese lady in kimono on the opposite side, painted with enamels. Band of flowers on the neck, another broader band of chrysanthemums on the shoulder. There is also a band of leaf patterns on the bottom. A large crack from neck to the middle of the body; porcelain glaze has small cracks all over the body. The foot is unglazed; the eye is fully glazed. No glaze on the rim. The teak wood lid, a later addition, has a finial made of an ivory netsuke of laughing Hotei.
- Century
- Mid-17th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1650
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.72A&B
- Medium and Support
- porcelain, blue underglaze, and enamel overglaze painting
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Shaving bowl with design of long-tail bird and flowers
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Imari ware, Japan
- Physical Description
- A medium size, shallow bowl with a semi-circular cut out on the rim. The bowl has flat surface on the rim and is concaved in the middle like a soup bowl. It has two holes on the opposite side of the cut out and a short foot. There is a blue band around the rim. There are two long-tailed birds in red, pale orange and yellow, perched on a blue pine tree which grows underneath the birds. Behind the pine tree trunk, there is a cherry tree in full blossom, its brunches extends in circle around the rim. The cherry tree and blossoms are in red, pale orange and yellow. More cherry flowers adorn the background of the birds. There are also red peonies on the left side of the pine tree; peony flowers also appear as spray on the four sides of the rim, backed by blue cloud design.
- Century
- Mid-17th century
- Object Creation Date
- mid 17th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.7
- Medium and Support
- porcelain, blue underglaze, and enamel overglaze painting
- relevance
- rank 0.00000