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  • Description

    Hanging Jar

    Made from porcelain, cane, wood, and metal. The jar is made from a white porcelain with hand painted designs of three large red circles with red flowers around them with green smaller circles. The jar has large crazing cracks. The jar is a spherical shape and is wrapped in elaborate cane weaving with a cane woven flared foot. Two metal rings are attached to the shoulders and a metal chain is wrapped through the rings with a hook attached to the chain for hanging. Attached to one chain is a wooden stopper for the jar

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1944.19
  • Accession Date
    Jan 1944
  • Other Id

    27171 (ethnology)

    M12 (Humphreys-Davies)

  • Department
jar, 1944.19, 27171, M12, © Auckland Museum CC BY

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