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Soba cup

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a small, white ceramic cup with blue lines forming crisscrossing diamond shapes around it, titled "Soba cup" by an artist not specified. The cup is centered in the image and viewed from the front at an angle. The body of the cup is white with a blue crisscrossing diamond pattern. The inside of the cup has a blue and white pattern on the top and is mostly white toward the bottom. The cup is short and stubby with a small foot at the bottom. The background is a plain gray color. A shadow is cast by the cup onto the surface below it.

Artwork details

Date:
1700–1750
Medium:
Porcelain with underglaze blue (Hizen ware)
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
599 × 399 px
Museum record:
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