tea-jar;
bag
- Museum number
- Franks.1806.b
- Description
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Tea-jar. Flower motifs. Made of iron-brown and grey glazed stoneware. Egaratsu ware. With ivory lid and silk bag.
- Production date
- 1600-1620
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 5.59 centimetres
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Height: 6.86 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- 茶入 肥前 唐津焼
Tea caddy, E-garatsu ware
This cylindrical tea caddy with unusual floral designs in iron oxide shows the stylistic influence of wares from the Mino kilns. The basket-like pattern around the rim and the designs around the body of the vessel are particularly characteristic of Mino wares from this period. In the 17th century, popular stylistic trends for tea ware travelled quickly in the Japanese archipelago.
Stoneware with underglaze iron oxide design and clear ash glaze, Karatsu ware, E-garatsu style, Hizen province, about 1600-1620
Given by Sir A.W. Franks
(Label Copy, 2017)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2010 Oct -, BM Japanese Galleries, Japan from prehistory to the present
- Acquisition notes
- The Asian ceramics donated by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks were recorded in a sequence on index cards (known as the ‘Franks Index Cards’), held in the Dept of Asia.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- Franks.1806.b
