Tea caddy, maru-katatsuki type

Object Details

• Description

  Tea caddy (chaire). Ivory cover (not original to this jar).

  Clay: hard, pale. gray, stained brown on surface.

  Glaze: reddish-brown, with areas of thin black and delicate splashings of yellowish tea-leaf green, running almost to base on one side. Interior unglazed.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Origin

  Shidoro kilns, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Place

  Shizuoka prefecture, Shidoro kilns, Japan

• Topic

  Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Ivory, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Shidoro ware, Brown and black glaze, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)