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Storage Jar

Medium: Stoneware with wood ash glaze
Place Made: Japan
Dates: 17th-18th century
Period: Edo Period
Collections: Asian Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Asian Galleries, The Arts of Japan, 2nd Floor
Accession Number: 74.111
Credit Line: Designated Purchase Fund
Image: Overall, 74.111_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Tea storage jar. Inverted-drop-shaped jar with low neck and everted rim. Four ornamental lugs (small loop handles) high on shoulder near neck: three of which collapsed in firing and filled with glaze. Two incised grooved at base of neck. Olive-green wood-ash glaze running in carmel-colored long vertical drips from neck to near foot. Lower quarter unglazed. Grey stoneware body burnt reddish-brown where exposed to fire. Flat bottom. Condition as received: Good. Fourth loop handle (see above) broken off and missing. No accessories received.

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