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Description: | Iron kettle, tetsubin 鉄瓶, with semicircular handle above and bronze lid. Upper part of body curves outwards from top like an inverted bowl then there is a horizontal inverted 'ledge' with the lower part bowl-shaped. Body has rough texture, with on one side four characters, reading: 'bamboo, wind, fire and ??'. On the other side is decorative motif of bamboo leaves and stems. Probably Meiji period.
caption: Right side of whole of Horniman Museum object no 59i
caption: Left side of whole of Horniman Museum object no 59i
caption: Detail view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 59i
caption: undefined | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | kettles iron Food and Feasting | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-216514 | Go to resource |
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