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17th century · Stoneware with overglaze enamels (Awata ware) · Asian Art
"Nanban" means "foreigners who come from the south"—the Portuguese and Spanish traders who come to Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries. Their strange clothes and odd physiognomy add a humorous cachet to many decorative arts of the Edo period.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 17th century
- Medium
- Stoneware with overglaze enamels (Awata ware)
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary B. Henderson, 1975
