Incense Container with Flowering Plants
Tea masters in Japan adored Chinese containers like this and used them to hold incense. The simple yet vibrant patterns in red would have given the tea room a lively accent.
- Cultural property designation
- Quantity
- Artist
- Zhangzhou ware, China
- Period/Century
- Ming dynasty, 17th century
- Country/Origin
- Excavation site
- Material
- Porcelain with overglaze enamel
- Size
- Inscriptions
- Donor
- Gift of Mr. Hirota Matsushige
- Collection reference no.
- TG-2553
- Genre
- Asian Ceramics
- Category
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