Blue-and-white bottle with takokarakusa grass design
Blue-and-white bottle with takokarakusa grass design
Blue-and-white bottle with takokarakusa grass design
Blue-and-white bottle with takokarakusa grass design

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South Asian Art

Blue-and-white bottle with takokarakusa grass design,

ca. 1830

Japanese
Edo period, 1603–1868
1998-804

Information

Title
Blue-and-white bottle with takokarakusa grass design
Dates

ca. 1830

Medium
Arita ware: porcelain with underglaze blue
Dimensions
h. 32.2 cm., diam. 20.9 cm. (12 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
The John B. Elliott, Class of 1951, Collection
Object Number
1998-804
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Inscription
Two characters on bottom
Culture
Japanese
Period
Edo (Japanese period)
Type
blue-and-white, bottles, ceramics, arita
Materials
porcelain
Techniques
underglazing
Subject
geometric patterns, scrolling foliage

–1998 John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.

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