Ash container with three birds, late 16th century
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Karatsu ware; stoneware with underglaze ironexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.288
On View in Gallery 225expand_more
A container like this one, called a hi’ire (literally, “fire container”), would have held hot ashes and been placed in a tobacco tray like the one displayed here. Guests to a tea gathering would use the hot ashes to light their pipes.
Typical of wares from the Karatsu kilns, this mukōzuke is decorated with casual, rapidly painted designs in iron oxide brown.
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- Title
- Ash container with three birds
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.288
- Curator Approved
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