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Flask with fish and scroll design
Flask with fish and scroll design

Flask with fish and scroll design

late 15th century
Object PlaceKorea
Medium/TechniqueBuncheong stoneware with incised and sgraffito decoration
DimensionsH. 22.8 cm (9 in.); diam. of rim: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); diam. of body: 18.3 x 13.9 cm (7 3/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection and Denman Waldo Ross
Accession number99.298
On View
On view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
Provenance1880s, probably purchased in Japan by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1899, gift of Bigelow and Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge to the MFA (Accession Date: November 7, 1899).

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.


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