Cup with Butterflies-and-Iris Design and Basketry Exterior

Zōshuntei Sanpo

Date

ca. 1840–60s

Type

Cup

Medium

Porcelain with overglaze polychrome enamels, fine basketwork exterior (Arita ware, product of Hisatomi Yojibei)

Department

Asian Art

Culture

Japan

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

93.3.512

Credit

Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893