Bottle with Geese along a River Bank

Description This is an example of Hirado ware from the Mikawachi kilns.

Exhibitions

• Hirado Porcelain. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1980-1981.
• Nineteenth Century Maryland Life. Kanagawa Prefectural Museum, Kanagawa. 1986.

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Transcription] dai nihon mikawachi furukawa sei; [Translation] Great Japan, Mikawachi [kilns], made by Furukawa

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters