Storage jar, 16th century
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Shigaraki ware; stoneware with natural ash glazeexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.325
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This large Shigaraki jar is noted for the brown ash glaze that pools and drips unevenly across its rough surface, which is marked by particles of white feldspar. Potters in Shigaraki began making bowls, jars, mortars, and other vessels for utilitarian use around a millennium ago. The irregular properties of the local clay and unique firing processes lent Shigaraki pots and bowls a sense of rusticity and spontaneity. Late in the fifteenth century, the ostensible artlessness of Shigaraki pottery drew the attention of tea masters like Murata Jukou (1423-1502) who embraced a new style of tea ceremony based on the unpretentious, austere aesthetic concept known as “wabi.”
Details
- Title
- Storage jar
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.325
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 662
- Curator Approved
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