Sacrificial Bowl
1830
Medium
White porcelain; reproduction of Chinese Song, Dingyao bowl (Kairakuen ware)
Dimensions
H. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Diam. of rim 3 7/8 in. (9.8 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
93.3.297
About the Artist
Eiraku Hozen · 1795–1854
Eiraku Hozen (1795–1854) was a celebrated Japanese ceramic artist and the sixteenth-generation head of the Nishimura family, a Kyoto dynasty of potters whose work was closely associated with the tastes of the imperial court and the refined aesthetic culture of the ancient capital. Operating under the artistic name Eiraku — a name that would become synonymous with a particular style of elegant, tec...