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Melon-shaped Ewer

13th century
Object PlaceKorea
Medium/TechniqueGlazed stoneware with inlaid decoration
DimensionsHeight: 19.0 cm (7 1/2 in.), Diameter of Foot: 8.0 cm (3 1/8 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection and Denman Waldo Ross
Accession number99.300
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
Provenance1880s, probably purchased in Japan by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston; 1899, gift of Bigelow and Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge to the MFA (Accession Date: November 7, 1899).
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