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Tea caddy with connoisseur's cipher by Charles Lang Freer, Bunkio Matsuki — VisualArtsDB

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Tea caddy with connoisseur's cipher

Tea caddy with connoisseur's cipher

Tea caddy with connoisseur's cipher

Charles Lang Freer Bunkio Matsuki

1615

Medium: Stoneware with rice-straw traces; ivory lid, cipher in red lacquer
Genre: Vessel
Museum: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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Japanese ArtteaBizen wareEdo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)ArtivoryCharles Lang Freer collectionstoneware

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