Title

Hirado peach-shaped blue and white box, Late Edo, Japan, early 19th century. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Hirado peach-shaped blue and white box, Late Edo, Japan, early 19th century. Porcelain box in the form of a peach with applied leaves and a bat. The piece is painted on one side with a fisherman in a watery landscape, on the other with a butterfly collector in a pastoral landscape.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1800

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B73_296

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

18,0Mb (363,0Kb) / 9,4in x 7,4in / 2826 x 2225 (300dpi)

Keywords

landscape fruit country container box color colour Japan Japanese location century porcelain pottery artefact peach artifact 19th century nineteenth century Museum of East Asian Art Edo period Hirado ware object Unknown ceramic ceramic object