永樂保全作 色絵日之出鶴文茶碗|Teabowl with Rising Sun and Crane

Eiraku Hozen

mid-19th century

永樂保全作 色絵日之出鶴文茶碗|Teabowl with Rising Sun and Crane by Eiraku Hozen

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

Tags

Cranes

About the Artist

Eiraku Hozen · 17951854

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...

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