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Large Grain Storage Jar

Medium: Stoneware with natural ash glaze, Shigaraki ware
Place Made: Kamakura, Japan
Dates: 14th century
Period: Nambokucho Period
Collections: Asian Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Asian Galleries, The Arts of Japan, 2nd Floor
Accession Number: 73.32
Credit Line: Frank L. Babbott Fund
Image: Overall, 73.32_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Jar with predominantly amber-colored scorching with natural ash glaze. Typical of this ware, feldspathic deposits (of sand and gravel) in the clay. Stoneware. Jar has flaring neck and out-turned rim (tamt-buchi), broad sloping shoulders, wide body which tapers toward base. Flat base, slightly concave. From area southeast of Kyoto, one of the Six Old kiln sites. Condition: Pock marks throughout. Three breaks in lip. Some flaking on body. Area on base where clay and ash (?) accumulated in firing.

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