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Baluster Vase with Zodiac-Animal Poetry Partysecond half of 19th century

Not on view
White porcelain vase with cobalt blue underglaze decoration, rounded body painted with a continuous landscape scene of robed figures among rocks, with geometric border bands at neck and foot

Unknown, Baluster Vase with Zodiac-Animal Poetry Party, second half of 19th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Allan and Maxine Kurtzman, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
Baluster Vase with Zodiac-Animal Poetry Party
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
second half of 19th century
Period
Edo period (1603-1868) or Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Hirado Mikawachi ware; porcelain with underglaze blue
Dimensions
8 1/4 × 4 7/8 × 4 7/8 in. (20.96 × 12.38 × 12.38 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Allan and Maxine Kurtzman
Accession Number
AC1997.273.21
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Singer, Robert; Hollis Goodall. Hirado Porcelain of Japan: From the Kurtzman Family Collection.
    Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1997.