Nesting Wine Cup

Medium

White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze (Hirado ware)

Dimensions

H. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); Diam. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); Diam. of rim 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); Diam. of base 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)

Classification

Ceramics

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893

Accession Number

93.3.275

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