Set of Five Double Shell-form Plates with Plovers and Shoreline, Butterfly and Flower Designs

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Set of Five Double Shell-form Plates with Plovers and Shoreline, Butterfly and Flower Designs

Alternate Title: Hirado Mikawachi yaki sometsuke chidori hana chō mon kaigata hachi

Japan, 19th century
Ceramics
Hirado Mikawachi ware; porcelain with underglaze blue
[each] 7 1/8 x 6 x 2 in. (18 x 15.2 x 5 cm)
Gift of Allan and Maxine Kurtzman (M.2001.193.3.1-.5)
Not currently on public view