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Maker(s):Tsuji Seimei
Culture:Japanese (1927 - )
Title:Shigaraki-Bunrin Round-shouldered Tea Caddy
Date Made:1926 - 1989 Showa Period
Type:Container
Materials:stoneware, natural ash glaze, ivory lid
Place Made:Japan
Measurements:overall with lid: 2 1/2 in x 1 7/16 in diameter body; 6.35 cm x 3.65125 cm
Narrative Inscription:  on lower body, incised katakana "Tsu"
Accession Number:  SC 2008.17.11
Credit Line:Gift of Peggy Block Danziger, class of 1962, and Richard M. Danziger
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
stoneware clay with abundant natural ash glaze and topped by ivory lid, string-cut base with three marks of shells used to support piece during firing

Label Text:
This tea caddy comes with Kikashibu-striped paper cover for box, new kiri box with brown cord, box lid obverse inscribed "Shigaraki / chaire", lid reverse inscribed "seimei [red seal 'Seimei'], Shifuku of new satin-weave silk brocade (donsu), with green ground with quatrefoil lozenges on broken diamond-lattice ground, and purple cord.

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