Japanese Mortuary Pottery (Flower Vase)
Object Details
- Notes
- From Card: "Unglazed Earthenware made of a grey clay lightly baked. From a Japanese Grave, collected by P. L. Jouy. Form: a bulbous body with a short flaring neck; on its shoulder are attached three small pot bellied bottles with flaring mouths and an opening made through their bottoms into the body. The body rests on a bell shaped base. Decorated: the shoulder is covered with small scroll [these are not scrolls but horizontal rows of chevrons--R. Elder] pattern in fine incised lines and the body with lines made around it with a comb-like tool; the base is perforated with three oblong trapezoid openings. One of the small bottles has been broken off and mended; also the base has been mended. Illust. in USNM AR 1888, pl. 86, fig 1"
- Record Last Modified
- 30 Jul 2020
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Japanese
- Data Source
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Accession Date
- 1898
- Accession Number
- 020161
- USNM Number
- E94520-0
- Object Type
- Vase
- Height - Object
- 17.14 cm
- Diameter - Object
- 9.843 cm
- Place
- Nara (25 Miles N.E. Of Kyoto), Nara Prefecture, Honshu, Japan, Asia
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- Anthropology
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8488383
