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Tea Container with Design of Chinese Boys Playingmid-19th century

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Blue and white porcelain jar with fitted lid, decorated with a continuous scene of playing children and a hanging ruyi-head border

Unknown, Tea Container with Design of Chinese Boys Playing, mid-19th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Allan and Maxine Kurtzman, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
Tea Container with Design of Chinese Boys Playing
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
mid-19th century
Period
Edo period (1603-1868) or Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Hirado ware; porcelain with underglaze blue
Dimensions
a) Lid: 3/4 x 3 3/8 in. (1.91 x 8.57 cm); b) Base: 3 1/8 x 3 5/8 in. (7.94 x 9.21 cm); Overall: 3 3/4 x 3 5/8 in. (9.52 x 9.21 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Allan and Maxine Kurtzman
Accession Number
M.2003.154.13a-b
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Japanese Art