Tea caddy with plants and a bronze handle, anonymous, anonymous, c. 1600 - c. 1699

Identification

Title(s)

Tea caddy with plants and a bronze handle

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-860

Inscriptions / marks

label: ‘E-Karatsu’
label: ‘E-karatsu/ 17e?’

Description

Grote stoftheebus of chaire van steengoed waaraan net onder de schouder een bronzen oor is bevestigd, gedeeltelijk bedekt met een crèmekleurig glazuur en beschilderd in onderglazuur blauw. Op de wand tweemaal een plant. Enkele restauraties aan de rand en schouder. Oud label aan de binnenzijde en onderzijde met 'E-karatsu/ 17e?'. E-Karatsu.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1600 - c. 1699

School / style

Edo-period (1600-1868)

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

vitrification

Measurements

height 11.6 cm
diameter 4.3 cm
diameter 7.5 cm
diameter 5 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Westendorp-Osieck bequest, 1968)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection of Herman Karel Westendorp (1868-1941), Amsterdam, 1941;{Note RMA.} his widow Betsy Westendorp-Osieck (1880-1968), Amsterdam, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1968;{note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.1485

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