Tea caddy, anonymous, anonymous, c. 1610 - c. 1620

Identification

Title(s)

Tea caddy
Tea caddy with a white spotted green glaze

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-726

Inscriptions / marks

label: ‘W568’
label: ‘Satsuma/ eind 17e’

Description

Stoftheebus of chaire van steengoed met een ivoren deksel, gedeeltelijk bedekt met een wit gevlekt, groen glazuur. Het onderste deel van de theebus is ongeglazuurd. Oud labe aan de binnenzijde met 'W568' en 'Satsuma/ eind 17e'. Satsuma.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1610 - c. 1620

School / style

Edo-period (1600-1868)

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

turning / fired / vitrification

Measurements

height 12.8 cm
height 11.9 cm
diameter 3.4 cm
diameter 6.8 cm
diameter 4.5 cm
height 1.6 cm × diameter 3.6 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Westendorp-Osieck bequest, 1968)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection of Herman Karel Westendorp (1868-1941), Amsterdam, 1941;{Note RMA.} his widow Betsy Westendorp-Osieck (1880-1968), Amsterdam, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1968;{note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Parts

Documentation

Aziatische kunst, cat.nr. 77
Asian art, cat.nr. 77
Japanese tea culture : art, history, and practice
Aziatische kunst uit het legaat Westendorp, cat.nr. 6, pl. 6

Persistent URL

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