Covered Satsuma ginger jar with ovoid body, short straight neck, domed cover with rim that extends over the neck surmounted by a round gilt finial. Painted polychrome decoration of Asian men in a landscape scene with a tiger around the body and painted polychrome geometric and floral patterns around the neck and the cover.
ginger jars
porcelain
Satsuma
Jar, Ginger
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
FD083
Unknown
15 (H), 9 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1800.1AB
Japan
Title Ginger jar Accession Number 2006.44.1800.2AB
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