Water Dropper with Three Chinese Boys, Snowball, and Blossoming Plum Branch

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Water Dropper with Three Chinese Boys, Snowball, and Blossoming Plum Branch

Alternate Title: Hirado Mikawachi yaki sometsuke iroe yukidaruma karako ume suiteki

Japan, late 19th century
Ceramics
Hirado Mikawachi ware; porcelain with pink and blue underglaze
3 1/4 x 3 3/4 x 2 7/8 in. (8.2 x 9.5 x 7.3 cm)
Gift of Allan and Maxine Kurtzman (AC1998.115.30)
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.