- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Square porcelain vase with narrow neck, small mouth and flat base. Underglaze blue pattern of cherry blossom on a white ground. [ASh [OPS move] 03/03/2016]
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1981
- Date collected
- circa 1981
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 02/1996
- Materials and processes
- Material Porcelain Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Moulded, Process Glazed, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 98 mm, Height: max 156 mm, Width: max 99 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1996.17.265
- Research and responses
Photograph of the vase appears in an article by John Lowe, 'The Charm of Everyday Japanese Objects', in House and Garden, pp. 102-3. Nov. 1977. (See RDF for xerox of article).
The term mingei refers to hand-crafted objects for daily use, and also to the art movement begun by Muneyoshi Yanagi (1889-1961), who coined the term in 1926. Yanagi himself preferred the term folk crafts to folk arts as an English equivalent for mingei, though both terms have been used.
For more information on mingei see the donor's typescript catalogue, p. 36.
1996.17.265
Square porcelain vase with narrow neck, small mouth and flat base. Underglaze blue pattern of cherry blossom on a white ground. [ASh [OPS move] 03/03/2016]
1996.17.265
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