jar
- Museum number
- OA+.632
- Description
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Bulbous jar with a narrow foot and spreading lip covered with a rouletted pattern. Made of low-fired red pottery.
- Dimensions
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Height: 21 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Smith et al 1990
OA + 632, 654, 668 and 775 are from the Japanese collection made by Philipp Franz von Siebold during his stay in Nagasaki (1823-9). The interior of OA + 20, a Middle Jomon piece, has been lacquered, probably in the early nineteenth century by a connoisseur of antiquities.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006 Oct 13- 2016 Oct, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- OA+.632