Keywords: Japanese - Fresh Water Jar (Mizusashi) with Bamboo - Walters 49283 - Back.jpg This Mizusashi water jar was made for use in the tea ceremony to hold fresh water Japanese porcelain manufacture which developed much later than that of China flourished on the island of Kyushu in the last decades of the 17th century The family-run Hirado kilns were one of the few to produce innovative wares of the highest quality in the 18th century 2nd half Other date century 18 Edo porcelain with underglaze blue cm 18 3 accession number 49 283 15269 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Hirado Porcelain The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1980-1981 place of origin Hirado Japan Walters Art Museum license Japanese ceramics in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Mizusashi |