Small cup, fragment of wall and rim

Object Details

• Description

  Small cup, fragment of wall and rim.

  Clay: porcelain.

  Glaze: clear with bluish tint and iron glaze around the rim.

  Decoration: none.

  Mark: none.

  "Made in Japan" sticker.

• Marks

  "Made in Japan" sticker.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Origin

  Hiekoba kiln site?, Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Harold P. Stern

• Type

  Vessel

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• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita, Hiekoba kiln site?

• Topic

  Art, Arita ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)