Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012

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Fresh water container (mizusashi) with checkered decoration and lacquered lid

about 1960
Artist Hamada Shôji
Height x diameter: 18.1 x 17.5 cm (7 1/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
Glazed stoneware with lacquer

Classification: Ceramics

Culture: Japanese

Period: Shôwa era

Accession number: 2012.75

Location: Walter Ames Compton, MD Gallery (Japanese Collections)

Provenance/Ownership History: 2011, sold by a collector/dealer in Tokyo to Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., New York; 2012, sold by Joan B. Mirviss to the MFA. (Accession date: March 28, 2012)

Museum purchase with funds donated by Edward A. Studzinski