The Metropolitan Museum of Art

永樂保全作 金襴手鳳凰吉祥文銚子|Sake Ewer (Chōshi) with Phoenixes and Auspicious Patterns

Eiraku Hozen

first half of the19th century

Attribution

Eiraku Hozen Japanese, 1795–1854

Medium

Porcelain painted with red and gold (kinrande) over a transparent glaze (Kyoto ware, Eiraku type)

Physical dimensions

H. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm); W. at spout 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm); Diam. 5 in. (12.7 cm); Diam. of base 3 in. (7.6 cm)

Credit line

Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893