very large dark brown jar with irregular, bulbous shape; short neck, rounded lip; tan, beige, and gray drip glaze top one-third of body; drips down mouth interior; large stoneware globules on sides

Storage jar, early 17th century

Unknown Japaneseexpand_more

Tokoname ware; stoneware with natural ash glazeexpand_more

Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more  2015.79.333

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A light-colored glaze descends from the wide neck and covers the sloping shoulders of this storage jar from the Tokoname kilns. Named for the town of Tokoname on the Chita Peninsula south of Nagoya, Tokoname ware has been produced since the eleventh century at a number of kilns in the vicinity of the town. The high iron content of Tokoname clay leads to a characteristic dark, red-brown surface.

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Storage jar
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2015.79.333
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Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 672
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very large dark brown jar with irregular, bulbous shape; short neck, rounded lip; tan, beige, and gray drip glaze top one-third of body; drips down mouth interior; large stoneware globules on sides

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