Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Handled Vessel with Silver Lid
(Japan and Korea )
By the mid-17th century, Japanese ceramics became particularly popular in Southeast Asia and Europe. The Dutch East India Trading Company imported great quantities of Japanese porcelain to the Netherlands. Once there, this Japanese blue-and-white vessel was then outfitted with a silver hinged lid to repurpose the vessel into a tankard (lidded mug), presumably to make the ceramic vessel more functional for the Dutch market.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1971-1972 | World of Wonder. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Netherlands
(Place of Origin)
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H (to top of handle): 10 1/4 × W: 6 7/8 × D: 5 1/2 in. (26 × 17.5 × 14 cm)
H (to top of lid): 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
49.2386