The Metropolitan Museum of Art

宮川長造作 色絵鳥形香合|Incense Container (Kōgō) in the Shape of a Bird

Miyagawa Chōzō

first half of the 19th century

Attribution

Miyagawa Chōzō Japanese, 1797–1860

Medium

Stoneware with polychrome enamels over a transparent glaze (Kyoto ware)

Physical dimensions

H. 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Diam. 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm)

Credit line

Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015