Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

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Vase with Swimming Fish and Rippling Seaweed Design

Artist Tamura Taiji (Japanese)

Datec. 1930-1940

Made/manufacturedJapan

MediumIron, bronze, silver, gold

Dimensions6 x 9 3/4 x 4 1/8 in. (15.2 x 24.8 x 10.5 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by the David A. Cofrin Fund for Asian Art

Object number2013.42.1

Collections

ASIAN

DescriptionVase in a rectangular form ornamented with designs of swimming fish and rippling seaweeds on the front and back. Of assembled iron and bronze plates, the seaweed of hakudö or white bronze, the fish decorated in nunome technique inlaid silver and gold.