SOGA Tokumaru
(Japan)
Hyôchien Company
(Japan)
Vase with design of cocks, hens and chicks
- Location
- Upper Asian gallery
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Japan: Meiji period 1868–1912
- Year
- Dec 1878
- Media
- Ceramic
- Medium
- porcelain or white stoneware, enamel colours over clear glaze
- Dimensions
- 34.0 x 19.0cm
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated base, in Japanese, red enamel [inscribed] ".... Meiji jû-ichi nen jû-ni gatsu Nihon Tokyo Hyôchien sei Soga Tokumaru ga [December 1878 made by Hyôchien Company of Tokyo, Japan and picture by Soga Tokumaru]" [and factory's mark].
- Credit
- Gift of the Japanese Commissioners at International Exhibition 1881
- Accession number
- 2447
