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Gourd-shaped sweets container with geometric design


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Japanese
Edo period
17th century
Object Place: Province of Owari, Japan

Medium/Technique Mino ware, Oribe type; stoneware with iron wash and wood ash and feldspathic glaze
Dimensions 9.3 cm (h) x 14.5 cm (diameter) x 12 cm (base diameter)
Credit Line Morse Collection. Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number92.5407a-b
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCeramicsPotteryStoneware

Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue of the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery (1901), #2620
ProvenancePurchased by Edward Sylvester Morse in Japan between 1877 and 1892. Deposited to the MFA in 1892.