Dish, serving - Artifacts
Description
Miniature pieces of wax sushi in a ceramic soy sauce dish
A: Soy sauce dish, H: 1", Diam: 3", white ceramic dish with shallow straight sides and pedestal bottom; 2 brown crabs with orange dots in the center are painted on the inside of the dish; the sides have ridges and accents of brown glaze
B-J: Wax models of sushi, approx. 1.25":
B: nigiri sushi: silver gray and blue mackerel on white rice
C: nigiri sushi: light orange uni (sea urchin) tied with orange strip on white rice
D: nigiri sushi: purple, white and yellow eel on white rice
E: nigiri sushi: yellow with red sprinkling tamago (egg) on white rice
F: nigiri sushi: white with red stripes and tail, ebi (shrimp) on white rice
G: nigiri sushi: dark red naguro or toro (tuna) on white rice
H: maki sushi, seaweed coated rice roll with tuna in center
I & J: 2 pieces of 3 bamboo leaf decoration with tan painted centers, paper with shellac
Object ID
1998.054.009