"Korai" Spoon

Description This bronze spoon has a handle joined in the middle for folding and a circular band for securing the extended position. It terminates in a fish tail. The piece has a dark green patina with clouds of powdery green. A piece has been eaten away from the bowl.

Provenance Yamanaka and Company [date and mode of acquistion unknown] [as excavated at Kaijo]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1920 [mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1920