Hirado vessel

Ceramics
Japan

Subject/design:

In the shape of a hi-ire (handwarmer)

Panoramic landscape

Materials:

Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Date:

Meiji era, c. 1870-1890

Size:

19 cm x 14.5 cm

Place of origin:

Japan, Hirado, Mikawachi

Artist:

Unknown

Description:

A broad-base globular vessel with sides cut away in the form of a hi-ire handwarmer, having an overbridging handle with a ring in the centre at the top.

Round the sides is painted a panoramic landscape view with the island of Enoshima in the foreground, fishing-vessels with their sails rising above the sea-mist, and Mount Fuji towering over the opposite shore. 

Inventory number:

CB.CJ.1932.75

Copyright:

Fondation Baur

Photographer:

Marian Gérard