Chinese Boy Holding Incense Tube with Raised Dragon

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Chinese Boy Holding Incense Tube with Raised Dragon

Alternate Title: 平戸三河内焼銹釉龍刻香筒抱く唐子

Japan, first half 19th century
Ceramics
Hirado Mikawachi ware; porcelain with iron glaze
13 1/4 x 7 1/8 x 4 7/8 in. (33.7 x 18 x 12.3 cm)
Gift of Allan and Maxine Kurtzman (AC1997.273.4)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Singer, Robert; Hollis Goodall.  Hirado Porcelain of Japan: From the Kurtzman Family Collection.
    Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1997.