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Yellow; Tea Jar with Cover and Fragments of Brocade

Kubo Shunman

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A tea jar with a cover; the jar is on a patterned cloth; fragments of brocade are scattered around the jar. The jar has a handle on either side near the top. The jar is mostly gray with a red section on either side near the top. The right side of the jar has horizontal stripes in blue, white, orange and red with a floral design. A piece of fabric with a leaf design hangs down over the left side. The background is beige with Japanese writing in black and red.

Artwork Details

Date
mid-1810s
Medium
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
554 × 625 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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