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Vase with Autumn Flowers and Elephant Handles
(Japan and Korea )
Satsuma ware has a distinctive ivory-colored ground and finely crackled transparent glaze. Most Satsuma wares were produced for export, and for this reason were decorated with images and subjects from Japanese art and culture that appealed to foreign tastes, including pagodas, flowers, birds, and figures wearing kimonos.
Provenance
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2018-2019 | Meiji Restoration for Satsuma Ware. Kagoshima Prefectural Museum of Culture REIMEIKAN, Kagoshima City. |
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 21 15/16 × Diam: 10 3/8 in. (55.8 × 26.42 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters, before 1931
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.
49.2193