永樂保全作 色絵日之出鶴文茶碗|Teabowl with Rising Sun and Crane
mid-19th century
Medium
Stoneware with cream slip under a white slip and polychrome enamels, gold, and silver over a transparent glaze (Kyoto ware, Eiraku type)
Dimensions
H. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm); Diam. of rim 5 in. (12.7 cm); Diam. of base 1 7/8 in. (4.8 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
93.3.216
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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...