Medium:

Stoneware with traces of natural ash glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 5.4 × 15.9 cm (2 1/8 × 6 1/4 in)

Style:

Sanage, Tokoname or Seto ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Aichi prefecture, Japan

Date:

12th-13th century

Period:

Heian or Kamakura period

Description:

Bowl with flat base, applied footrim, and everted walls.

Gray stoneware, reddish on surface. On interior wall, accumulation of uneven natural ash glaze, pooling at edge of base, with trace of footrim of bowl placed above this one in a stack for firing. On outside wall, thin band of natural ash glaze; rest of wall was protected from glaze by the bowl beneath this one in the stack. Glaze adhering to the footrim, pooled from the wall of the bowl stacked below.

Inscriptions:

Inscribed, in Japanese: Old Tokoname / Kamakura / yamazara.

Inscribed, in Japanese: Old Tokoname / Kamakura / yamazara.

Collection:

Freer Gallery of Art Collection

Topic:

Sanage ware  Search this

Seto ware  Search this

Tokoname ware  Search this

Kamakura period (1185 - 1333)  Search this

Japan  Search this

stoneware  Search this

Japanese Art  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of Pamela W. Green

Accession Number:

F2016.3a-d

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

GUID:

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EDAN-URL:

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